Cedarvale

Historical marker location:

NM Highway 47, Cedarvale, New Mexico

( in front of school)

Edward Smith, William Taylor, and Oliver P. DeWolfe of Cedarvale, Kansas laid out this farming community in 1908. Hundreds of homesteaders arrived on immigrant trains. Most farmed pinto beans, shipping their crop to distant markets. In 1917, the community successfully petitioned to build a large schoolhouse. The WPA added classrooms and a gym in 1935-36. In the 1930s, drought and the Depression substantially reduced the population.