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Welcome to The Lea County Museum online

Preserving the history of Native Americans, ranchers, farmers, homesteaders,Buildings on Museum Grounds (dates built)
1. Commercial Hotel--1918
2. Love House--1908
3. Baker School--1914
4. Store and Post Office--1913
5. Dugout--1908
6. Caprock Store--1913
7. Reed House--1950

Other Exhibits: Blacksmith shop, Tack Room, Farm Equipment Shed,
wagons, buggies, and much more.

The county seat of Lea, Lovington became a town in 1908 when settlers
from east of the Texas line homesteaded the western edges of the Llano
Estacado in New Mexico Territory. New Mexico became a state in 1912.

Lea became a county in 1917.

The Lea County Museum was created by the Lovington Women's Club in 1969
when the club purchased the Commercial Hotel, which was about to be
razed. It is a non-profit organization (501 c 3) owned by the City of
Lovington and operated by a volunteer board of directors.

The Commercial Hotel was built in 1918 by a group of Lovington ranchers
and businessmen. It changed names several times, becoming the Love
Hotel, then the Plaza Hotel.

Jim Harris is the Director of the Lea County Museum.

Hours
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Friday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday

Appointments can be made for
any other times (except on Sunday)
by calling 505-396-4805.

103 South Love
Lovington, New Mexico 88260
leacomuseum@leaco.net

The Lea County Museum is a Non-Profit and Tax Exempt Organization.
 501(c)(3)

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