AfroFrontierism: Blackdom (1900 - 1930)
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#HōmstedClass Eustace T. Boyer | [TWP 13S - RNG 25E / SEC21] February 1, 1921

Accession Nr:793224 Document Type:Serial Patent State:New Mexico Issue Date:2/1/1921 Cancelled:No

BOYER, EUSTACE T2/1/1921793224NMNew Mexico PM013S - 025ENW¼21Chaves

BOYER, EUSTACE T2/1/1921793224NMNew Mexico PM013S - 025ENW¼21Chaves

#NegroTroops Philippines | Ada, Oklahoma Friday, January 11, 1907

All Negro Troops Ordered Sent Out of the Country.


24th Infantry | #BuffaloSoldiers


#FrontierAlchemy | #BlackdomRenaissance


#BlackdomWantsASchool | Santa Fe New Mexican October 13, 1910

BLACKDOM WANTS A SCHOOL | 

SIX THOUSAND FOR MILEAGE  |

Appropriation in Enabling Act Will Not Pay all Expenses | The territorial board of education met this afternoon and discussed recommendations for constitutional provisions. Tomorrow it will meet with the committee on education and will also take up applications for about  seventy-five certificates.

Territorial Funds | Territorial Treasurer M. A. Otero today received the following funds From Territorial Auditor W. G. Sargent, $2,200, dining car licenses of the El Paso and Southwestern railway; James Sutherland, Chaves county, $1,773.30; Gregory Page, McKinley country, $24.35; from Game Warden Thomas P. Gable, $27.50; interest on territorial deposits, $1,152.01.

Who Pays the Taxes | In Dona Ana county, according to Travelling Auditor Charles V Safford, the railroad assessment is 42.50 percent of the whole. The other percentages are; Agricultural lands .31, city lots and improvements 10.6, grazing lands 1.2, merchandise 3.4, cattle 1.9, horses 1.6, wagons, implements and harness 1.4, household goods 1.mineral lands .3 and all other cases 1.8.

School Census | Superintendent of Public Instruction James E. Clark reports that the school census for 1910 gives Bernalillo county 7821 persons of school age, 3716 being boys and 3695 girls.

Exclusive Negro Settlement | Superintendent of Public Instruction James E. Clark today had a letter Blackdom, twenty miles south of Roswell and near Dexter, Chaves county, asking for advise as to school curriculum, The letter states that Blackdom is the only exclusive negro settlement in New Mexico, that the colored people have taken up 10,000 acres in homesteads and will instll a pumping plant. The community has built a commodious school house and now asks for assistance in arranging for the curriculum and a teacher.

The Santa Fe New Mexican | October 13, 1910

The Santa Fe New Mexican | October 13, 1910

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Blackdom #FarmersPreferred | "500 Negro Families," The Crisis September 1913

#Wanted

500 Negro families (farmers preferred to settle on FREE Government Lands in Chaves County, New Mexico. Blackdom is a #NegroColony. Fertile soil, ideal climate. No "#JimCrow" Laws. For information write JAS. #HaroldColeman | Blackdom, New Mexico

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#BlackdomANegroReguge | Silver Lake [IN] Record, September 18, 1903

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The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated at Santa Fe, N.M., with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the Southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.

Silver Lake Record | September 18, 1903 pg 1

Silver Lake Record | September 18, 1903 pg 8

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#OrganizationOfBlackdom | New Albany [IN] Weekly Tribune, September 11, 1903

Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.

New Albany Weekly Tribune September 11, 1903 pg 1

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