Santa Ana Pueblo The original location of Santa Ana Pueblo was 5,400 feet above sea level against a craggy mesa wall on the north bank of the Jemez River. When the Spanish arrived in the 1540’s they called the pueblo (then known by their traditional name Tamaya) Santa…
Carlsbad The settlement remained Eddy until a spring NW of town came to be reputed to have the same mineral content as the water at the famous European spa known to Germans as Karlsbad, or Carlsbad. This spa, now in Czechoslovakia and renamed Karlovy Vary by the Czechs, was…
Goodson by Kendyl K. Monroe Settlement of the Dry Cimarron Valley The settlement of the Dry Cimarron River Valley initially proceeded from west to east(1). Madison Emery, who led several families from the Cimarron-Maxwell area to the mouth of Toll Gate Canyon, approximately 44 miles west of the future…
Espanola What appears to outsiders as Espanola actually is an agglomeration of communities-Quartelez, Sombrillo, Santa Cruz, San Pedro, Santo Nino, Riverside, Fairview, and perhaps others. As one native put it, "No one\'s really from from Espanola." Espanola was not listed in Escudero\'s Noticias of 1849, and to this day…
Elizabethtown By F. Stanley Dumas, Texas March, 1961 Indirectly, General James H. Carleton was responsible for Elizabethtown. The soldiers at Fort Craig, Pinos Altos, Fort Stanton and Fort Union were dissatisfied with their lot as Indian fighters and voiced a desire to join the Union Army where the fighting…
Sandia Pueblo Tuf Shurn Tia, Green Reed Place, is the traditional name for Sandia Pueblo. Sandia Pueblo is one of the four Tiwa speaking pueblos, and is located 15 miles north of Albuquerque, totaling 22,877 acres of land. Sandia is located on the east side of the Rio…
Los Lentes By Patty Guggino Los Lentes, a small village on the west bank of the Rio Grande several miles south of Isleta Pueblo, is identified in the Spanish Census of 1790 as La Plaza de San Antonio.(8) This identification of the village with the patron saint of the…
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…
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…
