One of the first children born in Cardonateville in June 1881 was to Mr. & Mrs. Richards. In September of that year the family moved 3 miles down the arroyo to Cerrilos, where they built two wooden structures on this site. They rented the upstairs rooms. & downstairs. Doc Richards ran his drug store. When the fire of 1890 destroyed all the buildings on this block Richard's rebuilt at the same location, but with adobe. During Prohibition this was a saloon whose proprietress once resisted a raid by shooting blindly through the door. In 1968 this building was used as TTVPD's first fire house.
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