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Blackdom Townsite and Its People Remembered
The article traces Blackdom in New Mexico from its 1903 incorporation to its decline by the mid-1920s. It details founders including Francis M. Boyer and Isaac W Jones, the town’s aims to establish a Negro colony with irrigation, schools, and churches, the Dexter post office branch, a 300-strong population by 1912, community life, WWI Red Cross work, Juneteenth celebrations, and eventual abandonment with the Boyer family moving to Vado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Territory of New Mexico
I. J.W. Reynolds
Blackdom Townsite Company
A.D
J.W. Reynolds
New Mexico
Francis M. Boyer
Isaac W Jones
Daniel G Keyes
Burrell Dickerson
Charles C. Childress
John T Boyer
James Jackson
Charles W Clifton
Charles Thompson
Albert Hubert
Benjamin Harrison
George White
Joseph Cook
United States of America
Territory
Territory of
Blackdomn
Chaves
M.L
Mary Frances Collins
Mississippi
Boyers
Dexter
Collins
Blackdom
James A. Eubank
Lucy Henderson
Chicago Defender
Roswell Daily Record
Red Cross Chapter of
Red Cross
Texas
Boyer
Vado
Las Cruces
the Historical Society For
Southeast New Mexico
Wagoner
Cottonwood
L.K. Wagoner