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Silver City New Mexico & Grant County Area History

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The area's first residents, dating to the year 1000,
were the Mimbres Indians. The Pueblo people built a flourishing culture in the 1200s, building small towns in the Rio Grande valley and pueblos nearby. The Spanish encountered Pueblo civilization in the 1500s.     
Word of the pueblos reached Cabeza de Vaca, a Spaniard who survived a shipwreck on the coast
of the Gulf of Mexico while wandering across southern New Mexico. Fray Marcos de Niza identified the pueblos as the famed 7 cities of gold.
  
Dispatched from New Spain, conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led a full-scale expedition to find these cities in 1540. 
    
Silver City's history dates to 1870, when the first silver mine was built. It sprang to life as a tent city shortly after John Bullard opened a silver mine.
   
After the boom, the state opened the Normal School in 1895 to train teachers (it's now called Western New Mexico University). Copper is still mined south of Silver City. Billy the Kid's childhood home is also here. 
 
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