Springer
Population 1,696 - Elevation 5,857
Located in the old Maxwell Land Grant and near the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail, Springer served as Colfax County seat from 1882 to 1897. Several men were killed here in one of the late flare-ups of the Colfax County War, a dispute between land grant owners and settlers.
Marker is on Railroad Avenue 0.1 miles north of New Mexico Route 468, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
