The new town grew to accommodate hundreds of residents with a store, stables, saloons, boarding houses, a church, small school, and post office.

Multiple ambitious and extensive expeditions were made from 1870 to 1936 to discover additional gold veins, but only a select few found substantial lodes.

Today, Baldy Town operates as a staffed camp at Philmont Scout Ranch providing a living history program regarding mining as well as logistical support like food resupply for hikers[3] Gold was discovered in the region by Ute natives who displayed their find to local traders.

After learning of the discovery, Civil War Veterans flocked from Fort Union to prospect Baldy Mountain.

The town's position in the Moreno valley was advantageous for water supply and transportation, but was too far to service claims on the east side of Baldy Mountain.

Baldy Town originally was a series of miners homes in Ute Meadows, a couple hundred feet below the Aztec Mill.

As a result of processing ore with chemicals such as Mercury and Cyanide, the water traveling below the Aztec mill was polluted.

The segregation of residential spaces, where Mexicans lived below the mill, spoke to racism and xenophobia in the early 20th century.

In 1868, Lucien Maxwell invested in a $8,000 15-stamp mill and 12 horse power steam engine built below the Aztec mine to service the same.

In 1965, The Boy Scouts of America destroyed the general store, the last original building, as a safety concern.

Frank Springer attempted to reopen the Aztec in 1881, and Baldy Town grew to support his operations and investment in the mine.

In 1914, Geologist Ernhest V. Deshayes drilled 300 feet (91.4 meters) below the original Aztec discovering a new rich lode of gold.

The renewed mining of the Aztec briefly revitalizes Baldy Town, bringing hundreds of miners, investment, and infrastructure.

[1] Brothers Alexander T. and William P. McIntyre began plans in 1898 to bore a tunnel deep into Baldy Mountain in search of a legendary lode of gold.

In 1900, they began to mine on the west side of Baldy Mountain, extracting sparse veins of gold and copper.

The McIntyres continued to bore a tunnel from the west and east ends of Baldy Mountain which finally met in 1936.

After, a majority of work was redirected to remilling discarded ore from the Aztec Mine which was mildly profitable.

The last structure at Baldy Town, the original General Store, was a large stone masonry building likely built in the 1890s.

Originally, it was only a modest single room Staff kitchen, until being expanded to include a large porch and museum for displaying artifacts.

Opposite the museum, on the site of the town's former school house, is a commissary for distributing food to backpacking scouts.

The road traveling from Baldy Town to Ute Park has been maintained to allow vehicle traffic for logistics.

All mines, with the exception of a ventilation addit out of the Aztec-Ponil (which is displayed through French Henry's camp program), have been intentionally collapsed or barred for safety.