With the influx of new residents, Moore and Kroenig opened a store and sawmill. The town then took on the name Elizabethtown, named after Moore’s 4-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Catherine.

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 ...