Slaughter–Hill Ranch
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Slaughter–Hill Ranch
OR:
Slaughter–Hill Ranch on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

:''This is about the house and ranch in New Mexico. For the similarly named house in Virginia, please see Slaughter–Hill House'' The Slaughter–Hill Ranch, in
Roswell, New Mexico Roswell () is a city in, and the County seat, seat of, Chaves County, New Mexico, Chaves County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Chaves County forms the entirety of the List of micropolitan areas in New Mexico, Roswell micropolitan area. As of ...
, also known as Cunningham Homestead, Estancia Pavo Real, or the Canning Farm, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1988. It was the first
homestead Homestead may refer to: *Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses *Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres *Homestead principle, a legal concept th ...
of Sam Cunningham, from Missouri, who built the hand-hewn
log house A log house, or log building, is a structure built with horizontal logs interlocked at the corners by notching. Logs may be round, squared or hewn to other shapes, either handcrafted or milled. The term " log cabin" generally refers to a sm ...
. The building is the only surviving example of a hand-hewn log first homestead in the Roswell area. The ranch is significant also for association with C.C. Slaughter, a Texas cattleman who established a registered Hereford cattle herd here of national reputation. with After C.C. Slaughter died in 1919, ownership of the property eventually went to George Slaughter's daughter Eloise and her husband Curtis Hill, a lawyer.


See also

*
National Register of Historic Places listings in Chaves County, New Mexico This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chaves County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Chaves County, New Mexico, Un ...


References

Ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico Buildings and structures in Chaves County, New Mexico National Register of Historic Places in Chaves County, New Mexico Log houses {{NewMexico-NRHP-stub