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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19OA_st-marks-lighthouse_La-Joya-FL.html
Noted lighthouse builder Winslow Lewis began work on the Saint Marks structure in 1829. Eroding shores forced relocation a short distance inland in 1842 to its present location. The adjoining keeper's house is not original having been rebuilt on s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19O9_la-joya-de-sevilleta_La-Joya-NM.html
Present-day La Joya is located near the site of an ancient Piro Indian Pueblo that the Spanish named Nueva Sevilla, or Sevilleta. During the eighteenth century, this was the southernmost settlement along the Camino Real before the travelers ended …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUER_rio-salado-sand-dunes_La-Joya-NM.html
Dunes along this part of the Rio Grande Valley are formed by sand blown northeastward from the normally dry bed of the Rio Salado (salty river). The Rio Grande is in a deep trench between the uplifted Los Pinos Mountains to the east and the Ladron…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUEO_acomilla_La-Joya-NM.html
The Camino Real wound its way below the black basaltic buttes of San Acacia, seen to the southeast. Named Acomilla, or Acomita (little Acoma) by the Spanish, these buttes form the walls of a narrow passage for the Rio Grande, along which hostile A…