History
Ghost Ranch is part of Piedra Lumbre (Spanish, "Shining Rock"), a 1766 land grant to Pedro Martin Serrano from Charles III of Spain. Arthur Newton Pack, the co-founder of the American Nature Association and one-time editor of its Nature magazine (not to be confused with the UK scientific journal of the same name)), bought Ghost Ranch in 1936, and donated it to the Presbyterian Church in 1955.
Ghost Ranch is the subject of many landscapes by the American painter Georgia O'Keeffe, who maintained a summer home there in 1934, then her permanent residence nearby in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
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