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| | Beer Travelers - Pub Profile: Mine Shaft Tavern, Madrid, New Mexico |
 | | Madrid, N.M. Madrid was a thriving coal mining town of 3,000 in the early 1900s, but shrunk to 13 after Los Alamos, the last major customer for its coal, switched to gas in 1959. |
 | | The tavern was the last of the company town buildings to be erected, in 1946, and feels like it could be even older. |
 | | Artists, gallery owners and folks seeking an alternative lifestyle were able to buy the abandoned mining shacks for very attractive prices in the 1970s, and today the town of about 400 is a bustling stop along the Turquoise Trail. |
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