Las Cruces snags honor as nation's top farmers market Santa Fe garners few votes in online contest By Staci Matlock for the Santa Fe New Mexican The Las Cruces Farmers Market was voted the most popular large farmers market in the nation in an online contest sponsored by the…
Before well-known Battle of Glorieta Pass, Texans captured Santa Fe By Tom Sharpe The Confederates who briefly occupied Santa Fe 150 years ago this month found it an inhospitable city with Jewish merchants who refused their money, terrified nuns and a Hispanic majority neutral in the fight between Anglos….
Albuquerque 1945 to 1959; Albuquerque history post world war 2 Post-War Suburban Expansion 1945-1959 By David Kammer In an article that received national attention, the popular journalist and war correspondent, Ernie Pyle, explained to his readers why he and his wife had chosen to “make our base in Albuquerque”…
Albuquerque 1925 to 1944 Shaping a Greater Albuquerque 1925-1944 By David Kammer By 1920, Albuquerque’s population had grown to 15,157, representing for the first time more than half of Bernalillo County’s total population. While the growth patterns of the early 1920s continued to reflect an infill of the streetcar…
Albuquerque 1904-1925; Communities in New Mexico Dynamics of Suburban Growth 1904-1925 By David Kammer Throughout its early history, Albuquerque’s promoters published pamphlets boosting the new community. Often containing predictions about the town’s future based more on their hopes than facts, these brochures offer a gauge of the optimism that…
Historic Setting and Landscape By David Kammer As the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (AT&SF) pushed into New Mexico Territory in 1879, reaching Las Vegas on July 4, 1879 and Santa Fe on February 9, 1880, advance survey crews sought a site in the Middle Rio Grande Valley…
By Dr. James J. Zogby This is Black History Month in the United States; a time to reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to our nation's history and to take note of the progress that has been made in advancing racial equality and the challenges that remain….
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint Born in England, Frederick Webb Hodge came to the United States in 1871 at the age of seven. He was schooled in Washington, D.C. and at 23 went to work for the five-year-old U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Two years later, in 1886,…
6 27 1835 By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint As author Frank Waters so aptly put it, "the Fred Harvey system introduced America to Americans." And yet, Fred Harvey, called a "civilizer of the West," was an Englishman. Born Frederick Henry Harvey in London in 1835, he immigrated…
Nature's Sanitorium: Getting Well in New Mexico; Silver City; Tuberculosis in New Mexico By Kelly Roark In 1900, a Silver City newspaper proclaimed that—unlike other places in the country—Silver City did not have phthisophobia. Phthisophobia, or the fear of tuberculosis, was a growing issue in many corners of America…
