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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMQ_santa-rosa_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
The Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo passed through this area in 1583, as did Gaspar Castaño de Sosa in 1590. Santa Rosa, the Guadalupe County seat, was laid out on the ranch of Celso Baca y Baca, a politician and rancher in the late 1800s. It …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMO_trail-of-the-forty-niners_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
To give gold-seekers another route to California, Capt. Randolph B. Marcy and Lt. James H. Simpson opened a wagon road from Arkansas to New Mexico in 1849. Marcy's Road, although very popular with the Forty-Niners, still was never as well-traveled…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMN_edge-of-plains_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
Grassy plains meet pine dotted uplands in this transition from Great Plains to Basin and Range provinces. Plains to the east are capped by caliche, sand, and gravel which are deeply eroded into the underlying bedrock in places. To the west, faulti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUVQ_puerto-de-luna_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
Established by the early 1860s, Puerto de Luna is one of southeast New Mexico's oldest permanent settlements. An important farming and ranching center, the town was the Guadalupe County seat from 1891 until 1903. A strong oral tradition maintains …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUVI_santa-rosa_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
The Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo passed through this area in 1583, as did Gaspar Casta?o de Sosa in 1590. Santa Rosa, the Guadalupe County seat, was laid out on the ranch of Celso Baca y Baca, a politician and rancher in the late 1800s. It w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUVH_santa-rosa_Santa-Rosa-NM.html
The Spanish explorer Antonio de Espejo passed through this area in 1583, as did Gaspar Castano de Sosa in 1590. Santa Rosa, the Guadalupe County seat, was laid out on the ranch of Celso Baca y Baca, a politician and rancher in the late 1800s. It w…