The Percha Bank Museum is a local history museum in Kingston, New Mexico. It features the area?s local history and the historic Percha Bank.
Housed in the 1884 Percha Bank building, the Percha Bank Museum boasts of the area?s rich heritage and past. Its home, the Percha Bank is noted for once being the biggest bank in the biggest city in the New Mexico Territory. The town was once seven times bigger than Albuquerque, with a population of 7000 towering over Albuquerque?s 1000 during the town?s silver mining boom.
Despite the fall of the town of Kingston from its great place in the hierarchy, it is still rich in history. The Percha Bank Museum aims to preserve and present the available information of the area?s legacy and heritage through various displays.
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