Our third weekend out was to the Valley of Fire Recreation Area, and I was in luck there were five photos very close by. And two of those photos were at Lincoln State Monument, a place I had always wanted to go to but never stopped even when I was driving right through it. Two of the photos were located in White Oaks, NM. A near ghost town, (although there are quite a few residents there), it is a heavily visited and photographed town in our area. When I began researching these photos I was stumped for quite a while. The one of the square schoolhouse building was so familiar to me. I knew I had been there, Jim knew we had been there, but I could not place it. Finally, I ran across the photo on the internet and while searching White Oaks, stumbled upon the Brown Store Building located there as well. The Brown Store building was constructed in 1893 (probably at the peak of White Oaks population, and just prior to its fadeout around 1900. It was used at various times as a school, a dance hall and offices. |