Tyrone, New Mexico

Tyrone is a ghost town located in Grant County in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of New Mexico.

Tyrone was an elaborately planned community financed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, based on Mediterranean and European styles, designed by well-known architect Bertram Goodhue and built in 1915 at a cost of more than a million dollars. A drop in copper prices in 1921 closed the mines and the town was deserted. The townsite was later destroyed as part of Phelps Dodge's development of the Tyrone open-pit copper mine, which began operation in 1969.

Bibliography

*Haggard, C.J., "Reading the landscape: Phelps Dodge's Tyrone, Now Mexico, in time and space {mining company town}," "Journal of the West. 35":4, 29-39.

External links

* [http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nm/tyrone.html Tyrone ghost town page, with photographs]