The building below was the courthouse when Cimarron was the county seat of Colfax co., before 1882, when it was relocated to Springer. There was a range war here in 1870s. New Mexico was always messed up with competing land claims, Spanish, Mexican and American, with lots of history and with a tradition of indifferent surveying. Everyone had guns so things got violent. fast. The land was taken from the Indians then fought over by various clans of Americans.
I think was must have been a flour or feed mill.
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