Editing Lordsburg, New Mexico (section)

==History==
Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the [[Southern Pacific Railroad]]. The [[Continental Divide Trail]] starts at the Crazy Cook Monument and travels through Lordsburg.<ref name="auto"/> 
Local lore is that [[Billy the Kid]] washed dishes in Lordsburg hotel kitchens such as the Stratford Hotel, and La Fonda, the historic "inn at the end of the Santa Fe Trail" during his teenage years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1989-11-26-8902110988-story.html|title=ON THE TRAIL OF BILLY THE KID|first=TEDDY|last=KELLER|website=Sun-Sentinel.com|date=November 26, 1989 }}</ref>

===New Mexico state song===
Lordsburg is the birthplace of the official New Mexico state song, "[[O Fair New Mexico]]".<ref>[http://www.newmexico.org/explore/regions/southwest/lordsburg.php Lordsburg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618084442/http://newmexico.org/explore/regions/southwest/lordsburg.php |date=2009-06-18 }}, New Mexico Tourism Department
</ref> It was written by Lordsburg resident [[Elizabeth Garrett (song writer)|Elizabeth Garrett]], the blind daughter of famed sheriff [[Pat Garrett]]. In 1917, Governor [[Washington Ellsworth Lindsey]] signed the legislation making it the official state song. In 1928, [[John Philip Sousa]] presented Governor [[Arthur T. Hannett]] and the people of New Mexico an arrangement of the state song embracing a musical story of the Indian, the cavalry, the Spanish and the Mexican.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.governor.state.nm.us/MEDIA/PDF/newmexicostatesong.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829104521/http://www.governor.state.nm.us/MEDIA/PDF/newmexicostatesong.pdf|url-status=dead|title=New Mexico State Song|archivedate=August 29, 2008}}</ref>

===Lordsburg Municipal Airport===
The Lordsburg Municipal Airport (KLSB) began operations in the mid-1920's and was the first airport in New Mexico. Initially the airfield was a cleared parcel of land where pilots could takeoff and land in any direction. Dirt runways were later constructed.<ref>http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLSB AirNav website</ref><ref name="New Mexico Tourism Department">{{cite web |url=http://www.newmexico.org/place/loc/bymap/page/DB-place/place/1444.html |title=Lordsburg :: New Mexico Tourism Department |access-date=2008-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019101642/http://www.newmexico.org/place/loc/bymap/page/DB-place/place/1444.html |archive-date=2007-10-19 }} New Mexico Tourism Department</ref> In 1927, Lordsburg was one of the stops on [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s transcontinental ''Spirit of Saint Louis'' air tour.{{r|LAT 2020-09-23}} In the early 1950s the airport was served by the original [[Frontier Airlines (1950–1986)]] which flew DC-3s on a route from [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]] to [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]] that included stops at [[Las Cruces, New Mexico|Las Cruces]], [[Deming, New Mexico|Deming]], and Lordsburg, as well as [[Clifton, Arizona|Clifton]], [[Safford, Arizona|Safford]], and [[Tucson, Arizona]].<ref>Frontier Airlines timetable: November 1, 1950</ref> In the mid-1970's one runway had to be relocated to permit the construction of Interstate 10 around Lordsburg and a new paved runway was then constructed.<ref>1978 New Mexico Aeronautical Chart</ref>  The airport is owned by the City of Lordsburg and is southeast, about one mile outside the city limits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nmtourism.org/place/loc/hunting/page/DB-place/category/105/place/588.html |title=Lordsburg Municipal Airport :: New Mexico Tourism Department |access-date=2008-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040907090722/http://nmtourism.org/place/loc/hunting/page/DB-place/category/105/place/588.html |archive-date=2004-09-07 }} New Mexico Tourism Department</ref>

===World War II===
{{Main|Lordsburg Killings}}
[[File:Japanese internees Camp Lordsburg New Mexico World War II.jpg|left|thumb|220x220px|Japanese internees from the Monterey, Salinas, and Watsonville areas of California, at Camp Lordsburg in New Mexico during World War II. 1942-43]]
Lordsburg held as many as 1,500 Japanese Americans in a [[Japanese American internment]] camp operated by the U.S. Army during World War II. On July 27, 1942, shortly after the Lordsburg Internment Camp was opened, Private First Class Clarence Burleson, a sentry at the facility, allegedly shot two Japanese American internees under questionable circumstances. One of the victims, Hirota Isomura, apparently died instantly. The other, Toshiro Kobata, died before dawn. After a military investigation and [[court-martial]], Burleson was found to have lawfully killed the two men. The camp operated until July 1943.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/manz/ccdoj.htm|title=Department of Justice and U.S. Army Facilities}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.manymountains.org/lordsburg/|title=Lordsburg Revisited: A Closer Look at the Lordsburg Court-martial|website=www.manymountains.org}}</ref> The incident inspired an episode of the new [[Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series)|''Hawaii 5-0'']] series, "Ho'oani Makuakane", Episode 4/9 (original air date December 13, 2013).

The camp at Lordsburg also held captured German and Italian soldiers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.southernnewmexico.com/Articles/GeneralInterest/NewMexicosprisonerofwarca.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214012100/http://southernnewmexico.com/Articles/GeneralInterest/NewMexicosprisonerofwarca.html|url-status=dead|title=New Mexico's Prisoner of War Camps|archivedate=February 14, 2009}}</ref>

===Rest stop===
For many years, Lordsburg has been a popular rest stop for people traveling to and from the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] by car on [[Interstate 10 in New Mexico|Interstate 10]] and its precursor highway, [[U.S. Route 80 in New Mexico|U.S. Route 80]]. At {{convert|641|mi}} from downtown [[Los Angeles]], Lordsburg can comfortably be reached by car in less than one day. As Lordsburg had one of the few motels in the Southwest that would accept [[African Americans|black]] guests ([[El Paso]] being a notable exception), it was especially popular with black travelers in the mid-20th century during the end of legal [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]].<ref name="LAT 2020-09-23">{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Kurtis|date=2020-09-23|title=The museum closed first. As in many states, New Mexico's small towns bear the brunt of the pandemic|url=https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-23/la-na-lordsburg-small-town-budget-coronavirus-pandemic|access-date=2020-09-24|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>

There are 12 motels and hotels in Lordsburg. Over 300 rooms are available to guests.<ref name="New Mexico Tourism Department"/>