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Buckman, New Mexico

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506: 50: 83: 296:. A small community grew at the railway stop, supported by the timber harvesting, and a post office was established on July 22, 1888 with Mr. Buckman as the postmaster. By 1903 Mr. Buckman's sawmills had stripped all of the pine for which he had been licensed (and allegedly much more) and he departed, with the closure of the post office on January 5, 1903 and the collapse of the community. The post office was activated again 1913 - 1925. 90: 57: 322:
In 2001 the site was chosen for the Buckman Direct Diversion Project, a water supply development owned by, and serving the city and county of Santa Fe. The BDDP became operational in 2011.
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About 1888, Henry F. (or Henry S, depending on source) Buckman, a lumberman from Oregon, constructed a plank bridge across the Rio Grande at the point where the narrow-gauge
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The stop on the railway, the bridge, livestock pens and the road remained for several years, and continued to serve a number of homesteads on the Plateau, as well as the
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from its route along the river bank. Buckman had contracted to have a road blasted up a side canyon onto the
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buckman, New Mexico
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Virtually no trace now remains of the community or bridge.
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Ghost town
Buckman, New Mexico is located in New Mexico
Buckman, New Mexico is located in the United States
35°50′06″N 106°09′46″W / 35.83500°N 106.16278°W / 35.83500; -106.16278
Country
State
New Mexico
County
Santa Fe
Time zone
UTC-5
Mountain (MST)
DST
Area code
505
ghost town
Santa Fe County, New Mexico
United States of America
San Ildefonso Pueblo
Rio Grande
White Rock Canyon
D&RG
Chili Line
Santa Fe
Pajarito Plateau
Ponderosa Pine
Los Alamos Ranch School
Bandelier National Monument
Otowi
ISBN

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