Tyrone is a

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located in

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, in the southwestern part of the state.

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Tyrone was an elaborately planned community financed by the

Phelps Dodge Corporation Phelps Dodge Corporation was an American mining company founded in 1834 as an import-export firm by Anson Greene Phelps and his two sons-in-law William Earle Dodge, Sr. and Daniel James (businessman), Daniel James. The latter two ran Phelps, Jame ...

, based on Mediterranean and European styles, designed by well-known architect

Bertram Goodhue Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 – April 23, 1924) was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, Spanish Colonial Revival design. He also d ...

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. Image:Reveille 68th Inf. Brigade Tyrone NM 1918.jpg, Field camp of the 68th Infantry Brigade, 34th Division in Tyrone, NM (May 1918).

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Bibliography

* Haggard, C.J., "Reading the landscape: Phelps Dodge's Tyrone, New Mexico, in time and space ," ''Journal of the West. 35'':4, 29–39.

External links

Tyrone ghost town page, with photographs

at

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Geology of Tyrone Mine
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