Colonia Lerdo, a ghost town located in San Luis Río Colorado Municipality, Sonora, Mexico, was founded as an agricultural colony in 1872 by entrepreneur Thomas H. Blythe and Mexican Gen. Guillermo Andrade.
The colony was intended to grow and harvest the wild hemp that grew over much of the Colorado River Delta.
They also experimented with growing cotton and raised corn and other vegetables for their own use.
[1] Colonia Lerdo at first populated by 73 persons eventually grew to more than 500 people.
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