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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GHZ_don-juan-bautista-de-anza_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Don Juan Bautista de Anza, outstanding Spanish governor of New Mexico (1776-1787), explored a new road from Santa Fe to Arispe, Sonora, in 1780. This plaque is placed in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of that historic journey.
Don Juan Ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G1Q_the-founding-of-santa-fe_Santa-Fe-NM.html
(left tablet)On March 30, 1609, the Viceroy of New Spain appointed Don Pedro de Peralta Governor and Captain-General of New Mexico, instructing him to proceed to New Mexico with the greatest dispatch accompanied by twelve soldiers and priests. Ins…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G18_to-the-future_Santa-Fe-NM.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G16_1985_Santa-Fe-NM.html
By proclamation of the City Council, Santa Fe celebrated its 375th anniversary. During the year, this property was donated to the city by Archbishop Robert Sanchez and the Santa Fe Fiesta Council. These gifts, together with appropriations by the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G14_1982_Santa-Fe-NM.html
While responding to a request to give the Last Rites to a dying man, Franciscan Father Reynaldo Rivera, rector at St. Francis Cathedral, was kidnapped and brutally murdered, sending Santa Fe and the entire state into shock. Ironically, Father Rive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G13_1976_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Santa Fe, now 366 years old, joined the rest of the United States in celebrating the nation 200th birthday. New Mexico and the entire Southwest continued to see tremendous expansion and population growth with the influx of migration from the east.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G0Y_1960_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Santa Fe celebrated its 350th anniversary. During that year, special guests Maria Teresa Perez-Balsera and Maria Luisa Perez-Balsera arrived from Spain. The two ladies are direct descendants of Captain-General Don Diego de Vargas, the central figu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G0X_1945_Santa-Fe-NM.html
During World War II, the federal government set up a secret facility in Los Alamos to coordinate the Manhattan Project, resulting in the development of the first atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945, the atomic bomb was exploded at "Trinity Site&quo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FZY_1926_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Every year since 1926, when Will Shuster and Jacques Cartier created the image, Santa Fe and friends have been able to release their ties to depression, gloom and uncertainty by burning a symbol of these misfortunes . . . Zozobra! The burning of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FZV_1912_Santa-Fe-NM.html
In 1906, Congress passed an act that would enable New Mexico and Arizona to become one large state. The residents in Arizona voted against the act, while the New Mexicans voted for it. It was not until 1912 that the opposing forces were reconciled…