Madrid is a resurrected ghost town in Northern New Mexico. Coal was mined from the late 1800's to 1954. When the mines closed everyone was sent away except a caretaker. In the early 1970's people started moving in buying or renting the miners cabins or company buildings. Many of original buildings have been restored to be used for businesses and homes. Because of this it is possible to get a good feeling of what it might have been like to be here at the peak of the mining boom.