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August 20, 2026

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Smeltertown, an Upper Valley Hispanic community founded in 1887 at the base of the Kansas City Smelting Co. plant in El Paso, became a densely populated working-class town of about 5,000 people during the Depression and World War II before declining after the war and being largely razed in the…

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