Cerrillos
Elevation 5,688 Feet.
Before the arrival of the Spanish, the mineral rich area around Cerrillos produced turquoise, which was broadly traded across the American Southwest & into Mexico, An early settlement of Los Cerrillos harbored Spanish refugees from the 1680 Revolt, but the present community was not founded until the lead strike of 1879.
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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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THE HISTORY OF CERRILLOS
Cerrillos started in 1880 as a mining town when the railroad came through the Galisteo River valley. Cerrillos supported the mining district to the North. There are over 2,000 Territorial mines in the hills. The mines produced Gold, Copper, Silver, Galena, Turquoise, Manganese and Iron.
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In 1892 Sarah Johnson purchased these lots & her husband, L. G. Jones, built this two-story structure, which housed at various times Benn & Jones bar, Miller & Legace drugs & novelties, Mrs. Doyle's dry goods, groceries, & notions, a feed store, & a meat market. On the upper floor were lodge & hotel rooms. Tony Simoni moved from Madrid to Cerrillos in 1914 & 1919 for $3,000 he brought this building from E. W. Callender. Tony ran the grocery & August Probst the meat marker. Upon Tony's death in 1956 this building was run by Edith & Corina Simoni until their passing. 2014-now owned by Russel Saimons.
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