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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMU_miller-drug-store_Hillsboro-NM.html
Built in 1879, this building has been a mercantile, pharmacy, grocery, post office and telephone exchange.
Site No. 1304
A Register Cultural Property State of New Mexico
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMT_nike-hercules-missile_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Anti-aircraft missiles like this Nike Hercules once stood guard around many major U.S. cities and facilities during the Cold War. They were capable of knocking down high-flying, fast-moving bombers with high-explosive warheads or, equipped with a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMR_heroes-of-bataan_Las-Cruces-NM.html
More than fourteen hundred New Mexicans fought with the 200th Coast Artillery (CAC) Regiment defending the Philippines and the Bataan Peninsula at the beginning of World War II. The regiment received the Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPMK_americas-first-battle-of-world-war-ii-the-philippines_Las-Cruces-NM.html
For America, WWII began of December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first of Japan's day-long assault on locations throughout the Pacific. Major American installations on Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines, were also devast…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPM7_rio-grande-theatre_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Has been placed on theNational Register ofHistoric BuildingsBy theUnited States DepartmentOf the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPM5_civil-war-battle-of-mesilla-major-lyndes-retreat_Las-Cruces-NM.html
On July 24, 1861, Lt. Col. John Robert Baylor led 300 men consisting of two companies of the Second Texas Mounted Rifles, a Texas light-artillery company without its howitzers, an El Paso County scout company, and some civilian from Fort Bliss to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLU_mogollon_Kenosha-NM.html
The mountains and the town were named for Juan Ignacio Flores Mogoll?n, governor of New Mexico from 1712 to 1715. The name also is applied to the Pueblo Indians who abandoned the area in the early 1400s. These mountains were inhabited by Apaches u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLM_the-women-of-shakespeare_Lordsburg-NM.html
(Front):Emma Marble Muir (1873-1959)Rita Wells Hill (1901-1985)Janaloo Hill Hough (1939-2005)
Emma Marble Muir arrived at the mining town of Shakespeare in 1882. She and her daughter, Rita Wells Muir, learned to appreciate and preserve the town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLK_lordsburg_Lordsburg-NM.html
Lordsburg was founded in 1880 on the route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, near that used by the Butterfield Overland Mail Co., 1858-1861. The town was named for Delbert Lord, an engineer with the railroad. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPLJ_shakespeare_Lordsburg-NM.html
Located at the north end of the Pyramid Mountains, near the old stage stop at Mexican Springs, Shakespeare was first known as Pyramid Station. Later named Ralston, a diamond swindle caused its collapse in 1874. The town was revived as Shakespeare …