The rugged Old West town known as Lordsburg is located in Southwest New Mexico’s bootheel by Interstate 10, 24 miles east of the Arizona border. The Lordsburg of today is a quiet community compared to its earlier shoot-em-up days. Life was lively and sometimes perilous around 1880 when the Santa Fe Railroad was constructed and Lordsburg was founded.
Before Lordsburg had a name, railroad freight handlers needed a way to label merchandise destined for the town. Most of Lordsburg’s freight was shipped by Dr. Charles H. Lord of Tucson, who owned the distribution company that served New Mexico. Soon, the tag “Lords” caught on and, before long, the town was known as Lordsburg.
Motel Drive was once part of the famous Butterfield Trail. It is said if you listen carefully, you can at times hear the hoof beats of the horses and shouts of the stage master as the spirit of the stagecoach still rumbles through town.
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