Raton
1269 Officially founded in 1879, Raton has been called "The Gate City," serving as both a stage and railway stop from Colorado into New Mexico.
Zia Pueblo
111246 The traditional spelling and name for Zia Pueblo is Tsia Video Clip Courtesy of Silver Bullet Productions “Zia Pueblo: Home of the Sun Symbol,” 2006 Pueblo of Zia, San Ysidro Vicinity, Zia Pueblo, Sandoval County, NM. Photo taken after 1933. Courtesy of the Historic American Buildings Survey (Library…
Laguna Pueblo
Laguna Pueblo Laguna pueblo, with a population of around 8,000, is the largest Keresan-speaking pueblo. Located 45 miles west of Albuquerque, the Laguna Reservation land totals around 42 square miles. The area around Laguna holds evidence of archaic Indian presence as early as 3,000 B.C. It is believed…
Questa- San Antonio del Rio Colorado
Questa- San Antonio del Rio Colorado This excerpt from Another Time in This Place: Historia, Cultura y Vida en Questa Utes (mostly Mouache and Capote bands) reached this area by around 1500AD. They were to become closely intertwined with life of early Questa-area settlers. Also visiting the area for…
Picuris Pueblo
picuris pueblo new mexico Picuris Pueblo, or Pikuria (meaning those who paint), as it was named by Spanish Juan de Oñate, was once one of the largest Pueblos. However, their population has declined, making it currently one of the smaller Pueblos with a population around 300. Picuris participated…
Hobbs
In 1907, James Isaac Hobbs and his wife Francis (Fannie) sold their family farm in Brown County, TX and with children Winnie, Minnie, Ella, and James Berry, moved to SE NM for Fannie's health. At the site of the site of the city that would bear their name, near…
Los Ojos, NM
By Robert J. Torrez, Former New Mexico State Historian The historic village of Los Ojos was established around 1860, at about the same time that its sister communities of Las Nutritas (current day Tierra Amarilla), La Puente, Los Brazos, Barranco, and Ensenada were founded. The valley in which these…
Alamogordo
Alamogordo Soon thereafter Eddy bought the spring from rancher Oliver M. Lee to furnish water for the RR town he and his brother, John Arthur Eddy, were planning nearby. The townsite itself was purchased and laid out in 1898. In 1923, on the 25th anniversary of the town's founding,…
Chaco Canyon
Ancient Chaco\' s New History by Stephen H. Lekson Chaco is an arid, barren, sandstone canyon in the middle of nowhere. But a millennium ago, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D., ancient peoples not only survived there, they thrived and created an amazing city. Chaco\'s ruins awe us…
Roswell
Roswell, Rio Hondo, Van C. Smith By David Kammer Designated in 1873 as Roswell, the name of the father of Van C. Smith, the settlement’s first postmaster, the town began to grow in the 1890s as a result of the discovery of artesian water and the coming of the…
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