How New Mexico's first incorporated town transformed into a ghost town

How New Mexico’s first incorporated town transformed into a ghost town

How New Mexico's first incorporated town transformed into a ghost town

COLFAX COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – The first incorporated town in New Mexico was formed in 1866 in a portion of Colfax County. But now, 159 years later, all that is left of the northern New Mexico town is the stories, photographs, and a few stone walls of the old Mutz Hotel. So, how did Elizabethtown, located off the now New Mexico State Road 38 between Eagle Nest and Red River, come to be and end up a ghost town? The story starts with the discovery o…