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Pie Town New Mexico & Catron County Area History

America's Friendliest Little Town!
A Year-Round Recreational Paradise On The Continental Divide

In the early 1920s Clyde Norman, a Texan and World War I veteran, who "liked to bake" began making dried apple pies at his small café/gas station that lay along a little rocky ridge and the "Coast to Coast Highway" that would later become US Highway 60. Word of mouth soon got around that the best pies anywhere were to be found at "Pie Town."
  
In 1934 the area was opened up to homesteaders. Using dry land farming techniques, pinto beans were grown here until 1956 when the increasing lack of precipitation made it unprofitable.
  
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Catron County is named after a famous attorney and Santa Fe political leader, Thomas B. Catron.
  
Catron County became a county in 1921, and is the largest county in land size in the state, but has the third smallest population of any New Mexico county. It covers almost 7,000 square miles and is comprised of mostly rugged mountainous terrain. Less than 20% of the land in Catron County is privately owned with the balance of the land being public.

 
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