•  Acme and Frazier, New Mexico, some history

What were once the communities of Acme and Frazieris now split by US Highway 70. Both were about 17 miles northeast of Roswell, in Chaves County, southwest United States. Acme was named for the Acme Gypsum Cement Company. This Company built a mill in 1906 to produce gypsum, plaster and cement. There once were company houses for families of the 30 men employed. A narrow-guage railroad with dirt cars pulled by horses carried gypsum to the mill, where workers earned 40 cents an hour mixing gypsum, dirt and horsehair.

By 1923, Acme's population had grown to 100, but then, in the 1930's, the mill closed and Acme's population moved away. The mill and what was once Acme have vanished, except for the cemetery. Of Frazier, all that remains are the stone shell ruins of the former Frazier Elementary School. Both Acme and Frazier and now (2003) ghost towns.