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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19ID_ledoux-street_Taos-NM.html
Led Aux Street was named after the French trapper and guide Antonine Ledoux, who settled in the area around 1844. Earlier the street was named after Charles Beaubien and then later Smith H. Simpson. The area was developed in the fortress style wit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19E3_historic-taos_Taos-NM.html
Welcome visitors and Taosenos! You are invited to explore the diversity of this region through a self-guided tour. The two-hundred- year-old Taos Plaza, including the streets that radiate from it like spokes, forms the National Historic District o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19DZ_don-fernando-de-taos_Taos-NM.html
The Town of Taos was originally established on May 1, 1796 when 63 families who had petitioned Governor Don Fernando Chac?n were placed in possession of the Don Fernando de Taos land grant by the Alcalde of the Pueblo of Taos, Antonio Jos? Ort?z. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19DY_historic-taos-plaza_Taos-NM.html
Capitan Hernan Alvarado and his conquistadors from the famous Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Expedition arrived here on August 29, 1540. It is estimated that the Tiwa Indians settled in this valley around 1350 A.D. The name Taos is believed to be a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19D3_padre-antonio-jos-mart-nez_Taos-NM.html
Born in Abiquiu, New Mexico, on January 17, 1793 to Don Severino Mart?nez and Mar?a del Carmen Santistevan (Martinez Hacienda), the life of the Presbyter Don Antonio Jos? Mart?nez extended through the Spanish (1793-1820), Mexican (1821-1846), and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM199Z_don-fernando-de-taos-plaza_Taos-NM.html
This peaceful and historic plaza. shaded by cottonwood trees in summer and blanketed by snow in winter has been the site of military action, fiestas, and fiery speeches.
Spanish colonists settled at scattered locations in this valley beginning …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM197Y_taos_Taos-NM.html
The Spanish community of Taos developed two miles southwest of Taos Pueblo. It later served as a supply base for the "Mountain Men," and was the home of Kit Carson who is buried here. Governor Charles Bent was killed here in the anti-U.S. insurrec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMURN_palo-flechado-pass_Taos-NM.html
Palo Flechado (tree pierced with arrows) Pass was used by natives and newcomers traveling from the eastern plains to Taos by way of the Cimarron River. The name may be attributed to the Flecha de Palo Apache band (first mentioned by Juan de Ulibar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMURM_taos-canyon_Taos-NM.html
In 1692, after having been driven from New Mexico by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Spanish began to re-establish their rule. In one of the last battles of the reconquest, in September 1696, Governor Diego de Vargas defeated the Indians of Taos Pu…