Another fun stay at a Harvest Host, this one was very different from any of the others we’ve stayed at!

Shakespeare Ghost Town is an abandoned mining town in Lordsburg, NM. The town and buildings were purchased by the Hill family in 1935 and it has been passed down in the family since. The family maintains the buildings as well as they can while still keeping the original look and feel of the early mining days.

We took a tour with Dave, one of the owners. His knowledge of the town is amazing and you can tell how much he cherishes it by the care he has taken of it and how he shares it with others.

It was interesting to see how historic towns have evolved over the years. Our visit to Bisbee showed us an old mining town that has become a hippy-tourist area where the old buildings have been turned into restaurants and shops. Tombstone is a tourist attraction where they try to recreate the feel of the original town by reconstructing some of the bars and scenes. Shakespeare Ghost Town has a more authentic feel to it and may be a better way to understand what it was actually like to live in that time.