McDonald

A pioneer farmoing and ranching community; located on State Highway 18, 13 miles north of Lovington; original settlement site was one mile east of present location; named for the states first governor, William C. McDonald; town once had two weekly newspapers The McDonald Record published from August 10 to December 1912, and the Plains News, published 1913-1914; mercantile stores, cotton gin and school that closed in 1922.

McDonald, middle building was the post office established in 1912

McDonald, New Mexico, 1958, Courtesy of New Mexico State University Archives, Special Collections, Jack D. Rittenhouse Collection