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LINCOLN COUNTY, NEW
MEXICO
Town of Lincoln
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| LINCOLN,
10.2 m. (5,600 alt., 438 pop.), is near the first
settlement in this county on the Rio Bonito. Later settlements were a
village on the Hondo called the Missouri Plaza, and, in the Ruidoso
Valley, settlements at Hondo and San Patricio. Irrigation systems were laid out so
that this fertile land could be farmed. Because of the rich grass, stock
raising was also important. When Lincoln was settled in 1859 it was named
Las Placitas (small settlements), but after the county was named for
President Lincoln the name of the town was changed. It was the county
seat until 1913, when the seat was transferred to Carrizozo.
Source: Federal Writer's Project WPA, 1940 - Transcribed by C. Anthony |
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