Spanish-speaking settlers established a town here in the 1850s after the US army began to control the Mescalero Apaches. Ellis and Sons' store, 1876. Torreon is one of Lincoln's earliest structures, built in the 1850s to protect Spanish Americans against the Apaches. Tunstall-McSween store, 1877. Old Dolan home, 1888. CapitanSummit Labels
Ellis and Sons' store, 1876.