Entries Containing All of the Phrases «valencia county» AND «new mexico»

By PaulwC3, July 21, 2013

Wide view of the Valencia Marker

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1 ► New Mexico, Valencia County, Los Lunas — Valencia —

This community traces its beginnings to the hacienda established by Captain Francisco Valencia along this section of the Camino Real by the mid-17th century. Abandoned during the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the area was resettled in 1740 by Christian . . . — — Map (db m67073) HM

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2 ► New Mexico, Valencia County, Belen — "Bethlehem" — Belen, New Mexico —

In 1740, Belen, the Spanish word for Bethlehem, was founded on the west bank of the Rio Grande by Captain Don Diego Torres and his brother-in-law, Antonio Salazar. Subsistence farming and ranching was the mainstay of the region until the arrival of . . . — — Map (db m274796) HM

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3 ► New Mexico, Valencia County, Belen — Harvey House — Belen, New Mexico —

In 1881, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad laid north-south tracks through the county. In 1908, the Belen Cut-Off from Amarillo, Texas, through Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Needles, California rail line was finished. Within a year, the . . . — — Map (db m274795) HM

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