Site of the McSween Home - Lincoln, New Mexico

 

- photos taken June 25, 2006, TMC.

Opening a law office in Lincoln, 1875, Alex A. McSween rebuilt an old adobe into a ten room house.  On July 19, 1878, Peppin's posse fired it to oust inmates.  Leasing victim of this strategm was McSween himself.  The burned-down house was never rebuilt.

- Old Lincoln County Memorial Commission 1950

 

 

 

 

 

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