Lincoln County

Michael and I both enjoy history, so on our way home from Cloudcroft we decided to check out some historical sites in Lincoln County. First was the town of Lincoln where Billy the Kid became famous during the Lincoln County War. This picture is of the Murphy Store which later became a courthouse and jail that the Kid once escaped from.

Here Naomi is finishing off her juice box before we go inside to investigate.

We also say the Montano Store, Tunstall's Store, the old Church, the Wortley Hotel, and the site of the McSwine house.

Naomi has been asking to go to the Smokey Bear museum in Capitan, NM so this was a great opportunity to do that as well. Here, she and Michael are looking at a model showing the different fire density's and their destruction.

She's checking out a project all about Smokey.

We visited Smokey's grave while there and watched a short movie on Smokey's life and fire prevention (it was great for kids!).

We also visited the Ghost Town of White Oaks which was once a gold rush town from the 1880's until 1949. None of the building were open, but we did get to see the old School House, the Hoyle Castle, and the site of widow McSwine's house.

Poor Naomi wanted to take a nap, but every time she was falling asleep we only had about 10 minutes until we'd be stopping again. She made it to everything though and finally had her nap after our visit to White Oaks.