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Post by chivato88 on Aug 1, 2022 17:53:07 GMT -5
Heres another cool pic on Paulita Maxwell 's facebook page  |
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Post by paddyrobertstx on Aug 2, 2022 11:50:41 GMT -5
really cool pic, the house was only the single storey back in the 1870s/1880s but love seeing some of these old pics, adds some reality to the names/places
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Post by chivato88 on Aug 19, 2022 18:37:12 GMT -5
Old Fort Sumner meat market  |
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Post by chivato88 on Nov 16, 2022 13:43:57 GMT -5
The Maxwell residence, the pic with the cannon must have been taken when the army was at the Fort and the other around 1886 Attachments:
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Post by thumbuster on Nov 29, 2023 22:15:45 GMT -5
really cool pic, the house was only the single storey back in the 1870s/1880s but love seeing some of these old pics, adds some reality to the names/places What became the Maxwell Home on Fort Sumner had been the old officer's quarters when the place was still an active Army post. The Maxwell family paid $5,000 for Fort Sumner which seems like a pretty good price to me. I've been there three or four times over the past nearly 50 years. The first time I dropped by the old post was in the early 1970s when I was on my way to Vietnam. I also visited Billy's grave, the Lincoln County Courthouse and peeked into a window of the old Tunstall store. The post office was still working. BTW: fixed to the floor where Billy's bed would have been placed was an iron ring. It was heavily worn and looked to me like Billy's leg irons might have been attached to it. It is not there now and hasn't been for a long time. Oh, I also visited the Sweet's Billy museum on main street in the town of Fort Sumner. It looked about like it did the last time I visited a few years ago. Billy's grave did not have a fence around it, like it does today. It was easy to get to it and knock off a chunk then. |
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