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In 1915, New Mexico built a $1 million mining utopia for 4,000 residents; six years later, it was empty, and the copper mine eventually swallowed the town

In the mountains of southwestern New Mexico, a mining company tried to build something more ambitious than a workers’ camp. In 1915, Phelps Dodge created Tyrone, a carefully planned community designed by prominent architect Bertram Goodhue to house thousands of people working at its copper mine.

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