Built in 1879 at a cost of $9,800, this building served as the Colfax County Courthouse from 1882 through 1897, when the county seat was moved to Raton. This building housed the New Mexico reform school for boys from 1910 to 1917 and has been a public library, town hall and city jail.

Marker is on Maxwell Avenue 0.2 miles north of 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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