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…
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…
This land grant was petitioned by Nicolas Romero and 12 families in 1754. Governor Tomas Velez Cachupin approved the grant for 20,000 acres. Proceedings before the office of Surveyor General and the Court of Private Land Claims confirmed the grant for 14,786 acres. Truchas was one of the first…
The grant was approved by Governor Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza for 2,137 acres. Proceedings before the Court of Private Land Claims confirmed the grant for 2,137 acres. A close-knit community located in Santa Fe County, the land grant heirs rallied together in 1926, and defeated an erroneous tax assessment…
The Town of Jacona Grant is also known as the Ignacio de Roibal Grant. Located in Santa Fe County it was petitioned by Ignacio Roibal in 1702, and is considered a “quasi-community grant." Governor Pedro Rodriguez Cubero approved the grant for 46, 341 acres. It went before the office…
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…
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…
