Tyrone (ghost town), New Mexico facts for kids

Tyrone, New Mexico (May 1940).

Native Copper specimen from the Tyrone Mine

Tyrone is a ghost town located in Grant County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.

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.

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  Field camp of the 68th Infantry Brigade, 34th Division in Tyrone, NM (May 1918).

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