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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CBG_dona-elena-gallegos_Albuquerque-NM.html
Dona Elena Gallegos was a daughter of early seventeenth - century Hispanic colonists, Antonio Gallegos and Catalina Baca. They fled New Mexico with their newborn daughter during the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, and she returned in 1693 with two brothers an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CAA_plains-of-san-augustine_Magdalena-NM.html
Northeast part of Plains of San Agustin, occupied some thousands of years ago by large intermontane lake, is downdropped graben bordered by uplifted volcanic masses. San Mateo and Luera Mountains and Pelona Mountains are southeast and Horse Mounta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C94_riley_Magdalena-NM.html
Twenty miles north of Magdalena, Riley was a small agricultural village originally named Santa Rita by its Hispanic founders in the mid-nineteenth century. By the late 1880's mining drove the town's economy and in 1890 it was granted a post office…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C69_chaco-cliffs_Rehoboth-NM.html
Great cliffs of red sandstone form the southern boundary of the San Juan basin. The strata that are exposed here are the gently upturned edge of the structural basin which contains coal, uranium, oil and gas resources. The Zuni mountains to the so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C26_villanueva-state-park_Ribera-NM.html
Couched between high red sandstone bluffs in a beautiful valley of the Pecos River, this park is located near the picturesque Spanish colonial village of Villanueva. The park offers hiking trails with historical markers and camping/picnicking sites
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AOS_fort-stanton-medical-center_Fort-Stanton-NM.html
Established in Eighteen Hundred Fifty Five as a fort and cavalry post to control Geronimo's Mescalero Apaches. Named after Captain Henry W. Stanton, First United States Dragoons, who was killed in action with the Indians. By a Presidential proclam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AIJ_japanese-segregation-camp-no-1_Fort-Stanton-NM.html
During 1945, 17 men of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned here in what was officially known as Japanese Segregation Camp No. 1. Shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the federal government confined more than 120,000 Japanese American cit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AIE_the-mattocks-ruin_Mimbres-NM.html
The Mattocks Ruin is a large Mimbres archaeological site with pithouses and a pueblo dating more than 1,000 years ago. The site was once the home of the Mimbres people, Native Americans who left behind extraordinary black and white pottery which t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AID_mary-ann-deming-crocker_Deming-NM.html
This is a two-sided marker Front Side: Born in 1827, Mary Ann Deming was married to Charles Crocker, one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad. A "silver spike" was driven here in 1881 that commemorated connecting the Souther…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AIB_a-silver-spike-was-driven_Deming-NM.html
Linking the Southern Pacific railroad with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads at Deming in the Territory of New Mexico. Deming celebrates our state's centennial this March 3, 2012
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