Historical Marker
Black Jack Ketchum (1)
Thomas “Black Jack” Ketchum, leader of a notorious band of train robbers, was wounded seriously in August 1899 while trying to rob a train near Folsom. He was captured and taken to Trinidad, Colorado. Nursed back to health, he was tried and convicted under a law making train robbery a capital offense, and then hung in Clayton on April 26, 1901, where he is buried.
During World War II, New Mexico was the site of several top-secret military installations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the atomic bomb was developed. The laboratory is still one of the largest employers in the state and conducts research in fields such as nuclear energy and national security.