New Mexico Ghost Towns

County: Bernalillo 

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Year Established: 1908

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Year Abandoned: 1936

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Location: 22 mi E of Albuquerque on US 66

 

About: Barton, New Mexico, officially a ghost town, but not much more than a scattering of buildings that are now considered part of Edgewood. Named for an early resident, Barton received a post office in 1908, but by 1936, it closed, and area residents received their mail from Edgewood.

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In 1946, Jack Rittenhouse described the town as having a gas station, a grocery store, and a few cabins. At the corner of old Route 66 and Mountain Valley Road once stood an old Conoco gas station. Though it is gone today, the site is still home to a couple of old gas pumps, a few rusting cars, and the original Barton jail, which once detained such outlaws as the Dawson Gang.

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Remains: Few remains. Old windmill and a              couple of deteriorating structures and what appears to be foundations.