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Hillsboro, New Mexico
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Lake Valley was a silver boomtown of up to a few thousand people after a late-1870s strike that emptied when the federal government dropped silver as a currency standard. The Bureau of Land Management restored the schoolhouse and chapel and stabilized other buildings, offering a self-guided interpretive walk, free with water and a restroom near the school.
Open Thursday through Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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