Fort Wingate
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…
Fort Tularosa
Sources Used: Julyan, Robert. The Place Names of New Mexico. UNM Press, 1998. Stanley, F. (pseud.). The Fort Tularosa, New Mexico Story. Pep, TX: F. Stanley, 1968.
Agua Fria-Quemado
When the Spanish first arrived, the Santa Clara Indians referred to the area by a Tewa name, P’o’Karige, meaning cold water place. The cold springs served as the impetus for area settlement. The 1766 plano drawn by José de Urrutia demonstrates the physical layout of the Villa de Santa…
Cieneguilla
In 1777, Juan Candelaria recalled that the eighteenth-century settlement of Cieneguilla took place in 1698. It was four leagues from Santa Fé and was watered by the Río de Santa Fé (Armijo 1929:282-283). In 1776 Fray Domínguez wrote that two roads went down from Quemado like a V and…
Atrisco
Richard Greenleaf and Joseph Metzgar point to a 1662 attempt by Governor Peñalosa “to found a villa in the midst of the settled region, in a valley called Atrisco” as the earliest evidence for the existence of this settlement (Greenleaf 1967:5; Metzgar 1977:269). This document went on to call…
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