Near Santa Fe in Santa Fe County, New Mexico — The American Mountains (Southwest)
Three Wise Women
Eva Scott Fenyes, 1849-1930 Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, 1879-1972 ⎯⎯⎯ Leonora Curtin Paloheimo, 1903
Photographed by Bill Kirchner, July 22, 2011
1. Three Wise Women Marker
Side one
Inscription.
Three Wise Women. Eva Scott Fenyes, 1849-1930 Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, 1879-1972, also, Leonora Curtin Paloheimo, 1903.
Eva Scott Fenyes, 1849-1930 Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, 1879-1972. Three generations of one family worked more than 100 years to preserve the cultural heritage of New Mexico. Eva Fenyes created an artistic and photographic record of missions and adobe buildings, and preserved Spanish Colonial and Native American crafts. Leonora S. M. Curtin wrote Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande, which documented the ethnobotany of the region and the plants used by traditional healers.,
Leonora Curtin Paloheimo, 1903-1999. Leonora Curtin Paloheimo worked to preserve New Mexico's varied cultures. She researched Native American languages for the Smithsonian. During the Depression, she founded The Native Market as an outlet for Spanish American artisans who handcrafted traditional furniture and household items. She and her Finnish husband, George Paloheimo, established New Mexico's first living history museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, in 1972.
Eva Scott Fenyes, 1849-1930 Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, 1879-1972
Three generations of one family worked more than 100 years to preserve the cultural heritage of New Mexico. Eva Fenyes created an artistic and photographic record of missions and adobe buildings, and preserved Spanish Colonial and Native American crafts. Leonora S. M. Curtin wrote Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande, which documented the ethnobotany of the region and the plants used by traditional healers.
Leonora Curtin Paloheimo, 1903-1999
Leonora Curtin Paloheimo worked to preserve New Mexico's varied cultures. She researched Native American languages for the Smithsonian. During the Depression, she founded The Native Market as an outlet for Spanish American artisans who handcrafted traditional furniture and household items. She and her Finnish husband, George Paloheimo, established New
Mexico's first living history museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, in 1972.
Erected by New Mexico Historic Preservation Division.
Location. 35° 31.646′ N, 106° 9.377′ W. Marker is near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in Santa Fe County. It can be reached from Interstate 25 at milepost 269, 1½ miles west of Waldo Canyon Road (County Road 57). Marker is located at the La Bajada Welcome Center in the northbound rest area. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Santa Fe NM 87508, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Northern New Mexico. It is also in the American Southwest, in the Mountain West, and on the Santa Fe Trail Corridor. Globally, it is in North America, the Rocky Mountains, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain and also the Republic of Texas.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Sisters of Charity (here, next
Credits. This page was last revised on November 28, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 3, 2011, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona. This page has been viewed 1,027 times since then and 37 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 3, 2011, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
