Hope, New Mexico

Long time ago the town was called Badger N.M., and it was a booming place because they had water and lots of it from the mountains and the Penasco and there was a real bad flood in 1941 and it was so bad that it washed all of the bottom out of the river and then it sank into the ground so the water dried up. It was a real prosperous farming community and my kinfolks lived there and farmed. Then the railroad started that way from Artesia and they run out of money so an old feller and I don't know his name said he would go to England and get the money to finish the railroad and he was comes back on the Titanic and it sunk and all of his money and so the town was lost. When they found out he was killed the town said well now all we have is lots of  "HOPE" and so there is the name of the town now.  Now there is nothing left of the town at all. There was a really good school for all 12 grades and stores and everything. There was probably 12 or 14 stores and the streets were real crooked in the old days and when they put the new road it they straightened it out some. (story by Virginia)

Lower  Hope Cemetery

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