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Name: Dawson Cemetery, Raton, New Mexico
Location Type: Other
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Coordinates: 36.897923, -104.435482
Description:
The ghost town of Dawson was once a large coal mining town. In the early 1900's, a decade apart two separate mining disasters struck the town, and killed more than 400 men. The cemetery is filled with crosses that mark the graves of these men, row after row stretching up the hill....