A Lively Place

Denton's Feedlot, Kenna, NM

Kenna was once a lively place, a hundred and some years ago, it was one of the largest cattle shipping points in New Mexico.
Says the Office of the State Historian, "Officially organized in August 1906, Kenna grew overnight with slapped together wood-frame buildings topped with false fronts arranged north and south of the railroad along Main Street. These buildings housed an array of businesses typical of any western boomtown, including a mill, grocers, a barbershop, two lumber companies, a weekly newspaper, a hotel, a blacksmith shop, saloons and a bank."