On to Lincoln to snap the next two photos. These two photos were actually quite easy for me to identify. Unlike the schoolhouse at White Oaks, I remembered seeing these buildings when driving through Lincoln and also while researching Lincoln in the past for a place to visit. We zipped in, parked and shot the first photo, and zipped down the road a block or so and snapped the next. But while parked there, we realized, we really wanted to explore some of the buildings in this town (which is almost completely a museum run buy the State), so we went back to the site of the first photo to pay our fee in order to access the buildings in Lincoln. At the site of the first photo the old Lincoln County Courthouse are many exhibits mostly focusing on Billy the Kid. While we were in the old building there were pretty strong winds in the area and it creaked and groaned. The building is cracking and you can see monitors have been placed on the cracks to record the progress of the cracks. The building was built as a store and residence for L. G. Murphy in 1874. The Lincoln County War took place between 1878 -1881, so it must have become the courthouse sometime around this time as Billy the Kid was held here and escaped after killing two deputies. |