Dawson Mine Reunion Weekend

The Dawson Reunion Weekend (held every other year) will be during Labor Day Weekend this year on Saturday and Sunday, September 3rd & 4th.

In 2014, over 600 people attended the Reunion Weekend – to remember and learn about the good times and difficult times at the Dawson Mining Community.

Volunteers are always sought to help with the Dawson Reunion and to help maintain the Dawson Cemetery.

The town of Dawson is now largely gone, with only a few buildings remaining. The only significant remaining landmark in Dawson is the cemetery, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The cemetery is filled with iron crosses painted white marking the graves of many miners who died in the mines. Other markers show the burial locations of other residents of Dawson.

Dawson can be reached by proceeding approximately 12 miles east of Cimarron, on HWY 64, then turning north at the Dawson sign, for another 5 miles to the site of the Dawson Cemetery.

(Photo credit:  Jim Veltri)