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Hidalgo County Information
Formed in 1919 from part of Grant County
The County Seat is
Lordsburg,
where over half the population lives.
It was either named for the town north of Mexico City where the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed or Miguel
Hidalgo.
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May 1937
Three related drought refugee families stalled on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico. From farms near Claremore,
Oklahoma. Have been working as migratory workers in
California and Arizona, now trying to get to Roswell, New Mexico,
for work chopping cotton. Have car trouble and pulled up alongside the highway. "Would go back to Oklahoma
but can't get along there. Can't feed the kids on what they give you (relief budget) and ain't made a crop there
you might say for five years. Only other work there is fifty cents a day wages and the farmers can't pay it anyways."
One of these families has lost two babies since they left their home in Oklahoma. The children, seventeen months
and three years, died in the county hospital at Shafter California, from typhoid fever, resulting from unsanitary
conditions in a labor camp .
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Cities and Towns |
Ghost Towns (extinct towns) |
Antelope Wells
Animas
Cotton City
Cloverdale
Lordsburg
Playas
Road Forks
Virden |
Cloverdale
Cowboy Springs
Shakespeare
Steins
Valedon
Walnut Wells |
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