Deming Although Juan Bautista de Anza passed near here in 1780, the modern settlement of Deming dates from 1881 when the AT&SF and SP Railroads met near here, giving New Mexico its first rail access to both coasts. The settlement origianlly was called New Chicago and was located 10…
Deming Founded in 1881, Deming was also known as New Chicago and Mimbres Junction. Reproduction prohibited without express permission from the State Records Center and Archives. A group of early Deming residents pose for a photograph by a traveling photographer in the 1880s. New Mexico Magazine Photo Collection, Box…
The Town of El Rito Land Grant is also known as the Tomasa Tenario de Quintana Grant. The original grant of 51,000 acres was made to Joaquin Garcia by either Spanish Governor Fernando de la Concha (who served 1788-1794) or Governor Fernando Chacon (1794-1805). The grant was considered a…
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint From 1927 until 1968, James F. Zimmerman and his executive assistant, Tom Popejoy, served successively as president of the University of New Mexico for 39 years, with only a short, two-year interregnum. That has been the longest period of administrative stability that…
Hacienda de los Torres By Jane Knowles The Hacienda de los Torres is a well preserved family-owned farm that has been in continuous use since its purchase by Onesimo Valentine Torres in 1914. It is significant as an intact and functioning northern New Mexico agricultural complex and landscape established…
San Miguel del Bado Grant By Malcolm Ebright Introduction The San Miguel del Bado grant was the first major community land grant to expand the periphery of Spanish settlement on the eastern frontier of New Mexico around Pecos Pueblo. After the Comanche Peace Treaty was signed by Governor Juan…
The first site of Fort Wingate, established around 1849, was at Seboyeta. From there it was moved south and west to a site near Ojo del Gallo, where Hispanic settlers had created a small community, now San Rafael, around the spring of that name. The site of the fort…
Blackwater Draw There was a hiatus in field investigations at Blackwater Draw due to World War II and the departure of Dr. Howard. The decade of the 1950s brought renewed interest mainly due to the threat of imminent destruction of the entire site by the Sanders Sand and Gravel…
The ruins at Aztec, a significant archaeological site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico, were originally excavated through 1916-1921. Aztec consisted of 353 rooms surrounding an open courtyard with 29 kivas, and housed some 700-1000 residents intermittently. 1367 The Aztec Ruins is a significant archaeological site…
Permanent settlement of what is known today as Bosque Farms dates to the late eighteenth century, when Spanish-speaking settlers arrived in the area they called Bosque de los Pinos or "forest of the pines." Don Eduardo Otero, one of the principal landholders in…
