Tyrone | |
Settlement Type: | Ghost town |
Pushpin Map: | USA New Mexico |
Pushpin Label: | Tyrone |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | New Mexico |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Grant |
Established Title: | Established |
Established Date: | 1915 |
Founder: | Phelps Dodge Corporation |
Tyrone is a ghost town located in Grant County, New Mexico, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.
Tyrone was an elaborately planned community financed by the Phelps Dodge Corporation, based on Mediterranean and European styles, designed by well-known architect Bertram Goodhue and built in 1915 at a cost of more than a million dollars. A drop in copper prices in 1921 closed the mines and the town was deserted. The townsite was later destroyed as part of Phelps Dodge's development of the Tyrone open-pit copper mine, which began operation in 1969.