A Forgotten Town in Southeastern New Mexico

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A Forgotten Town in Southeastern New Mexico - Still in Southeastern New Mexico, we explore the remains of a forgotten town off Highway 2. Here the downtown area has been hit hard with many of its businesses shuttered and empty streets. How long will this town last before it becomes another ghost town? Find out in this episode of SightseeingSally.
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@amaliacoria3063 Жыл бұрын

I grew up here, many memories, family still lives there, as a matter of fact the house with the cowboys logos all around it belongs to a sister cousin of mine, yayy

@lancebarnett7994 Жыл бұрын

I work at the Napa. Y’all should’ve stopped by. Had a coffee and we could have given you much information on the area

@AWP20 Жыл бұрын

To the North of the Bobcat Grocery, the old train platform cement is still there. The building on the corner (which reminded you of your ice cream shop) was actually an old bank! Before they built it, a hotel existed there but it burned down! L&K Cafe was great! It shut down on its 50th anniversary a few years back and the owner has since passed. Yes, that was a cotton gin! There is actually another old cotton gin west of town.

@thedemonlord275 Жыл бұрын

Hagerman was my second home, brings some good memories

@juliogonzales5441 Жыл бұрын

Where ever you go....Sally and Marty....we go...thanks

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

You're welcome Julio! So glad you're sightseeing with us.

@ronaldrutledge8583 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoy watching sightseeing Sally videos and they're very educational thank you for sharing

@1954shadow Жыл бұрын

Sally, you have given us a lot to ponder, about this, ol’ town.

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

Sounds like someone was paying attention in my class lol

@HappyKartvlogs Жыл бұрын

This was a very interesting video, Sally! Absolutely love all the info you give and it's like I'd be walking around there with you:) Sending you lots of love and hugs!!!

@lizalaniz1913 Жыл бұрын

I have a friend that currently lives in Hagerman. He works the family farm and helps run the restaurant / bar. Mark Reid is a popular artist and art instructor, travels the world teaching. Hope he chimes in here to possibly answer some questions your followers had.

@byronhaley1566 2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Hagerman. At least through the 80's, cotton was the main crop of the area. Corn, alfalfa, and chili peppers were other common crops. Sugar beats were never grown there. Cattle for beef, dairies, and the oil field were the other major businesses of the area. The old large warehouse you mention is the old cotton gin. The community pantry was one of the two local grocery stores under a different name at the time. IF I remember right, the old "Hotel" looking building had the Ace Hardware on the corner and a barber shop next door.

@gregboyden564 Жыл бұрын

I love all these forgotten towns off the grid. thanks for another great history lesson

@travelobs57 Жыл бұрын

You always find that special angle that explains and opens up a town or area. The historical perspective you provide makes the viewer connect immediately. Thanks for another great job.

@richardbeee Жыл бұрын

If i remember right, that one corner building was the local drug store/soda fountain. There used to be miles of cotton fields all around there. Hey Marty, did you ever notice how far the garage is from the parts house? The mechanic would have to walk to get parts. Have coffee and a chat with the parts clerk and then walk back. Thirty minutes at the least, Chances are, they forgot to get something while they were there. Repeat process🙂

@playhooky Жыл бұрын

Cotton fields?! I bet that took a lot of irrigating!?

@richardbeee Жыл бұрын

@@playhooky That's what they originally built the canal system out there for. Crops. Alfalfa in places also.

@milin7120 10 ай бұрын

Yup n apaches n Comanches we're in d area as usual always in conflict with d white men 😂for d land they wanted d irrigate d Pecos valley with d canal system tat was built for crops ect..

@milin7120 10 ай бұрын

Tat corner store I don't know what it was originally but I know tat back in 1997 I think it was a haunted house during Halloween I vividly remember going inside lol it was super scary 🤯😳

@YamIa3gypsy Жыл бұрын

They are bittersweet sorts of places, and with you helping us find a connection to the history, makes for an interesting video. Sally, I really enjoy your presentation and storytelling skills! Thanks for taking us along with you and Marty.🌸V

@duanelogan9633 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video Sally it's always nice to take a trip and never leave the farm LOL 👍✌️

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

Does this farm have chickens & horses? Hahaha j/k You’re welcome Duane 😁✌🏻

@GolfMamaBear Жыл бұрын

My grandparents owned Johnson’s People’s Dry Goods store. The downtown was hopping in the 1940’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s! They had an old fashioned barbershop too.

@garybryant6148 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the update. I am looking forward to the next video be safe on your travels.

@jackpalmer724 Жыл бұрын

I hope Marty was able to adopt that sign. See ya later.

@badgerpa9 Жыл бұрын

That one old building looked like an old firehouse. Big storm coming this weekend. Stay safe and healthy.

@milin7120 11 ай бұрын

I lived in this town from 1995 -1999 went to elementary school here, bobcat grocery was still operating in 1998 i remember going there with my mom n buying groceries i remember renting d Godzilla movie from there lol 😂 man i hv so many memories from this town i could be here all day!!! Commenting

@caryward8251 Жыл бұрын

Hi there, Sally & Marty! At 7:05 , that certainly looks like the size and shape of a Cotton Gin and/or something to do with Cotton Processing. At 7:58, the metal tube coming out of the building has the looks of a Suction to take the cotton out of a cotton trailer into the gin for processing. I worked at a gin in Texas running the suction in the late 1960’s; but there were 2 suctions side by side and the building was built very different from the New Mexico structure! Good call, Marty! Keep Safe & Healthy!!!

@scottcastillo7936 Ай бұрын

Again, very nice team. Good history.

@roymichel1856 Жыл бұрын

Another nice commentary on times past. Thanks!

@bobgoodwin1032 Жыл бұрын

I Love your videos , Thank You !!!

@howitzer8946 Жыл бұрын

Thanks SSS. Marty you rock. Your memory banks are in good order.

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

lol thanks!!

@lannaquinn2813 16 күн бұрын

I used to live down in the Artesia and Lake Arthur area. Artesia used to have a Cotton storage shed, which was torn down several years ago, around 2015 if my memory serves me correctly and it looked much like the one in Hagerman. Most of Hagerman's business now is what lays along Hwy 2, the bank, restaurant, gas station, etc. Cotton has been a major crop in the area. Hwy 2 was the main highway between Carlsbad and north until it was widened to four lanes, becoming US Hwy 285 and was re-aligned. If you look closely between Carlsbad and Brantley Lake area on the east side of Hwy 2, going north you can still see parts of Hwy 2 when it was two lane.

@scottcastillo7936 Ай бұрын

Very nice presentation!

@backcountryboondockers Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if it's bc I'm from Wisconsin but you guys crack me up

@playhooky Жыл бұрын

Born & raised in IA & lived mostly in IL as an adult, and they crack me up too! Love them!

@docholidays1374 Жыл бұрын

you guys are great as in normal. love it. garret didnt kill billy the kid they were friends. it was a cover story to get billy the amnesty and freedom promised but never delivered. Billy was an american hero fighting corruption at local and state levels so they made him the fall guy for the whole mess to draw attention away from the real criminals. the sherrif, local business owners, the govenor, etc. billy died in 1951 in texas.

@scottcastillo7936 Ай бұрын

Excellent!

@aubreypwd 23 күн бұрын

I grew up here in the 90s. L&K Cafe (not Lake), and the big building used to be a hotel. The "warehouse" is a cotton gin where cotton was stored, indeed. Used to go by there after school to get push-pops from Mrs. Dennis who ran the office there.

@JSB1882 Жыл бұрын

That really looked like a really cool town at one point. Great ole buildings.

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

I agree. I especially liked the empty corner building. It would make a cool B&B or a restaurant/hotel.

@augustharter981 Жыл бұрын

The discovery of water always seems to be the key to start of a lot of towns and mining. Downtowns slowly disappearing in small communities. So sad. Working and playing elsewhere seems to be commonplace. Napa auto parts seems to be in a lot of small towns. Loves and fishes is in my area as well. BTW, I love the hat you wear in a lot of your videos. Do you collect the pins and badges from different areas you visit? Wow some new homes being built.

@laurablake4194 8 ай бұрын

I have friends in Denver - one whose mom’s husband was one of the first people to take money from investors for fracking - I passed on that cause it felt somehow bad. Somea my friends are wealthy and retired from this newer industry - and to your point - it’s extremely water intensive and Colorado is running out of water. And many other states - and my statement is highly generalized but nonetheless true.

@frankramirez4694 Жыл бұрын

I remember there was a bar somewhere around that area. I remember when some of those businesses were open. They are the Hagerman Bobcats

@johnhawks5035 Жыл бұрын

Love that wrap up Sally. Really says it all. Due to flight out of unaffordable areas not too distant from here, there will be increasing economic pressure for people with a few bucks to relocate here and feel like zillionaires. Good luck little has-been towns. Hope ya'll can handle it.

@colingeorgeh Жыл бұрын

I enjoy your videos. All of these dying towns need somewhere to have a cup of coffee or a burger, etc. They need a gathering place, besides a bar, for a community to have some life. I will keep watching. Thank you for sharing.

@recalcitrantradical7312 Жыл бұрын

Profundities from Sally. As long as there is a Costco w/ in 50mi., a Butcher w/ in 10, and you own a freezer, who needs downtown. Won't be long and the cost of the property there will attract the young, and then you can visit Roswell and wonder what all the green men are for. :) The only constant is change.

@michaelhager2846 Ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@ronsontag6841 Жыл бұрын

That Marty is one smart guy. Should have is own blog "Ask Marty" LOL

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

It would have to be a "Shorts" channel becuz Marty's patience for making videos is about 30 seconds long...

@Santiago_123 Жыл бұрын

You got my house in the vid

@jafff1 Жыл бұрын

A trip down the street to our local Hagerman community center/library would have given you all the information you needed. Michael could have answered all your questions. 😁

@earllutz2663 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Sally and Marty, for another great video. As one your commenters noted, maybe some people, in more expensive/overpriced areas, will move into, and populate these small towns; thereby saving them.

@christinatweet6580 Жыл бұрын

Why not immigrants & refugees looking for a new start? Some of the "dead" little towns in NE Nebraska---I've wondered why people couldn't move there, start over again?? 😮

@kingforaday8725 Жыл бұрын

@@christinatweet6580 Because they no more wanna live in these little towns than anyone else!!! More than likely they come from places worse than these towns.

@JohnShinn1960 Жыл бұрын

That's one of the ghostiest! Gonna see what I can see of Hagerman on Google earth. Thanks for the tour Sally and Marty! 🤠👍

@amaliacoria3063 Жыл бұрын

Nothing Ghostly about this area, I can attest to that

@JohnShinn1960 Жыл бұрын

@@amaliacoria3063 Appears. 😉👍

@DianaRivera-cr9ws Жыл бұрын

The corner building in Hagerman was a bank. The old vault is still in it.

@milin7120 10 ай бұрын

Oh really must been way before the 90s I don't what it was used for in d 90s but in 1997 during Halloween it was a haunted house lol 🤣🤣🤣 memories

@scottcastillo7936 Ай бұрын

Very nice video!

@rantonbro Жыл бұрын

was a drug store and the famiy lived up stairs ,that is a old cotton gin,we mostly grow hay alfa,pecans,dairy i live four miles south of hagerman ,my wife is manager in artesia.i,ve been watching you for over a year. we moved from carlsbad where we still have real estate bought this ranch less then ten years ago.carlsbad had got bad with gangs

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

Very awesome, thanks for being a part of the SSS community! Wouldn't it have been something if we would've run into you somewhere? Just think, we could have passed you on the highway whilst we were there.

@1954shadow Жыл бұрын

M-A-R-T-Y!

@MeanderingMarty Жыл бұрын

👍

@nexttsar 4 ай бұрын

The corner building was the original First National Bank of Hagerman.

@OdySlim Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for these towns off rt-2. I really loved Port Arthur. Please remember to find your way to Couderay when you get back to Wisconsin. I really need to see where my Dad & Grandpa did their shopping. HaHa Thanks for your videos.. Regards from Ody Slim

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

Couderay, got it. I'll keep it in mind 😉

@OdySlim Жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally Thank You!

@christinatweet6580 Жыл бұрын

In Rice Lake or Osseo (WI--not far from Couderay) go to Norske Nook...fabulous food, esp all their pies. What's that pie town out there, not far from Albuquerque? 🥧🥧🥧 (ooops, forget that, U R way far south of that area! 😮)

@louispaparella5766 Жыл бұрын

@@christinatweet6580 The name is Pie Town!

@Charlie-do6wv 6 ай бұрын

I think the corner bidg was a repurposed fire station. The three big openings would've been the garage doors, living quarters upstairs. Bet the fire pole is still in there

@glennjudd2467 Жыл бұрын

Another nice town !

@glennjudd2467 Жыл бұрын

Look so peaceful !

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of some of the towns here in Wisconsin. I could live there.

@glennjudd2467 Жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally that was my same thoughts !

@milin7120 11 ай бұрын

Tat abandoned building at minute 5.00 that was a haunted house back in 1997 during Halloween i went there inside it was super scary 😅😅😅 lol d floor moved apparently like it was water n it was dark it was scary as hell 😅😅😅 man memories

@scottcastillo7936 Ай бұрын

I've never tasted Cotton Gin. But would be willing if it safely transported me to Freedom.

@garybryant6148 Жыл бұрын

Hi Sally. When are you and Marty going to post a new video? Looking forward to seeing it. Thank you be safe.

@Machobravo Жыл бұрын

Hagerman brought karakul sheep from the Middle East to New Mexico and began the Hagerman-Hindi bloodline. The Hindi family was a Muslim family from Lebanon who ended up bringing their Arabian horses and karakul sheep to Duran, NM, another town you might visit

@christinatweet6580 Жыл бұрын

get some Pedi sheep from South Africa! ☺️

@frankramirez4694 Жыл бұрын

Yes it's theold cotton gin. There were quite a few of them.

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

How Marty knew that is beyond me

@frankramirez4694 Жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally I used to for Roundtree cotton company

@Ronnie-oh5ew 4 ай бұрын

I'm going to say old bank, just because it's on a corner & looks !?😊

@justnerdystuff Жыл бұрын

Those homes are most likely people who telecommute - which because of the pandemic is now a big way to work and so you can move back to these super small communities and work from home and live big and not so expensive.

@milin7120 11 ай бұрын

Bwck in d 1990s d town looked more alive but i was a kid i remember riding my bicycle 🚲 with my friends repping the hagerman bobcats color wen they played against Dexter lol

@SightseeingSally 10 ай бұрын

Great memories! Thanks for sharing them.

@milin7120 11 ай бұрын

Were d sign is bobcat at minute 4 just besides it in d corner there used to be a small renting movies store they had vhs tapes i remember going there to know is not there no more I guess it was abandoned n torn down

@garybryant6148 Жыл бұрын

Sally this is an excellent video. However, Hagerman appears to be drying up. Where does the people go for groceries and gasoline? How many police officers does Hagerman have? Thank you and be safe on your travels. Looking forward to the next video.

@rantonbro Жыл бұрын

she didnt show that hwy 2 there is a grocery store, gas station, bank, 3 cafes, and a family dollar ,barber and beauty shop ,all open here in hagerman

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

I also mentioned that to the north is Roswell and to the south Artesia, both of which are bigger communities where people go to work, eat, buy, etc. etc.

@milin7120 10 ай бұрын

Yup people mostly go to Roswell n Artesia my dad worked in d local dairy farms tats why I grew up there we used to go to rosuto eat in restaurants n sometimes to Artesia for groceries lol

@playhooky Жыл бұрын

Another great video! Hey, did you all hear the sad news that there are 2 ladies (from Ohio) that were vacationing somewhere around T&C & are now missing?! I'm afraid they've met with foul play sadly.

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

I did! The news article I read said the women had been found, though. It also said they were not going to be reunited with family. I thought the last bit was odd, not sure what to make of it.

@playhooky Жыл бұрын

@@SightseeingSally I did see later last night that they were found! But there must have been a misunderstanding in the news you read - because I just searched for news on it again & several stories do say the women will be reunited with family soon so that's good! I would say possibly they needed to get checked out at an ER & maybe get IV fluids for dehydration, but who knows. One story I read had a little more details & said that a family member thought the women were trying to go on a hike before they went to Phoenix for the flight home, & their car got stuck in mud & they had no cell signal.

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

@@playhooky I'm glad to hear they will be reunited with their families. I'm thinking whomever wrote the article made a typo and got missed by the editor (if they even do that for online articles??)

@clydemckenzie3933 Жыл бұрын

They use grow a lot of cotton in the area.

@scottcastillo7936 Ай бұрын

We have been identifying the heart in the wrong place.

@kingfunk9336 Жыл бұрын

Cotton was king

@DeeMoback Жыл бұрын

Dam shame

@SightseeingSally Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@TimothyFrench Жыл бұрын

Our town centers will fade out of existence if we continue to spend our money at the same ole chains and franchises that hope to become the only option for all of America.

@playhooky Жыл бұрын

Yep! I try shop local/non-chain whenever possible.

@TimothyFrench Жыл бұрын

@@playhooky My wife and I do the same 👍