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Historical Markers and War Memorials in San Miguel County, New Mexico
Adjacent to San Miguel County, New Mexico
▶ Guadalupe County (10) ▶ Harding County (2) ▶ Mora County (47) ▶ Quay County (13) ▶ Santa Fe County (82) ▶ Torrance County (14)
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| On Plaza Street at Hot Springs Boulevard, on the right when traveling south on Plaza Street. |
| | Santa Fe Trail merchants, the Dold brothers built this two-story Territorial style adobe building around the nave of the town’s first church, Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. — — Map (db m148857) HM |
| On 6th Street at University Avenue (State Road 65), on the right when traveling north on 6th Street. |
| | John Hill was the "supervising architect" using a Kirchner & Kirchner design. Built during a surge of civic improvements in New Town which included sidewalks, parks, and schools. Said to be the first municipal building in New Mexico. The structure . . . — — Map (db m45890) HM |
| On Grand Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Side A:
Meta L. Christy, DO, is recognized by the American Osteopathic Association as the first black osteopath. Dr. Christy graduated in 1921 from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine as its first black graduate. The College . . . — — Map (db m45889) HM |
| On Bridge Street east of the Plaza, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Design by E.W. Hart • Built by M. M. Sundt
Named for Las Vegas’s first mayor, merchant, and benefactor, Don Eugenio Romero. The Fire Company was formed in 1882 and continued in service as a volunteer organization until 2003. Throughout that . . . — — Map (db m64894) HM |
| On North Grand Avenue (U.S. 85) at Mills Avenue (Alternate U.S. 85), on the right when traveling south on North Grand Avenue. |
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The Engine was built for the Santa Fe Railroad Co. by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, in 1902 & used in regular service on various divisions of the Santa Fe Railroad in New Mexico, for 51 years. It's last trip in railroad service ended in Belen, . . . — — Map (db m45888) HM |
| On Interstate 25 at milepost 360, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Once the largest post in the Southwest, Fort Union was established to control the Jicarilla Apaches and Utes, to protect the Santa Fe Trail, and to serve as a supply depot for other New Mexico forts. The arrival of the railroad and the pacification . . . — — Map (db m55197) HM |
| On Interstate 25 at milepost 339 at U.S. 84, on the right when traveling north on Interstate 25. |
| | Interstate 25 cuts through dipping strata that form hogback ridges between the Great Plains and the south end of the Rocky Mountains. The Santa Fe Trail from here to Santa Fe, followed a natural valley eroded in less resistant strata between the . . . — — Map (db m55196) HM |
| On Bridge Street near the Plaza, on the right when traveling east. |
| | “Don Luis” Stern’s trademark slogan was “La Tienda Barata”—or the inexpensive shop. Later the site of the West Las Vegas Town Hall and jail. The cells still exist in the rear of the building. — — Map (db m64897) HM |
| On North Grand Avenue (U.S. 85) at Legion Drive, on the right when traveling north on North Grand Avenue. |
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Las Vegas served as an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail and later as a major railroad center. Here General Kearny announced the annexation of New Mexico by the U.S. in 1846. In 1862, during the Confederate occupation of Santa Fe, Las Vegas . . . — — Map (db m45887) HM |
| On Plaza Park, on the right. |
| | Architect: Charles Wheelock • Contractor: John Bennett Wooten Built by a consortium led by Benigno Romero and Jean Pendaries to replace the two-story Territorial Style adobe Las Vegas Hotel. — — Map (db m64925) HM |
| On Plaza Street just west of North Gonzales Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Mr. Acalde, and people of New Mexico: I have come amongst you by the orders of my government, to take possession of your country, and extend over it the law of the United States, we consider it, and have done so for some time, a part of the . . . — — Map (db m148846) HM |
| On Douglas Avenue near 6th and Douglas. |
| | Site of the First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in New Mexico Territory.
Temple Montefiore - 1884 — — Map (db m134321) HM |
| | Site of the First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in New Mexico moved to this site — — Map (db m134320) HM |
| On 6th Street south of University Avenue (State Road 65), on the right when traveling north. |
| | Built by M.M. Sundt
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
The YMCA was organized in Las Vegas in 1900 with Attorney A.T. Rogers as president. The "Y" flourished for two decades before closing in 1924. The building then served as the Las Vegas . . . — — Map (db m45891) HM |
| On State Road 63 2.7 miles south of State Road 50, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Built in 1810 — — Map (db m65857) HM |
| On State Highway 63 1.1 miles south of State Highway 50, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Front:
Humans have inhabited the Pecos Valley for at least 12,000 years. The fifteenth century Towa-speaking trading pueblo, Cicuyé, had over 2,000 inhabitants. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Franciscan churches were built . . . — — Map (db m119913) HM |
| | The largest of the mission churches at Pecos Pueblo, ca. 1625
La Iglesia mas grande de la mission de Pecos, ca. 1625 — — Map (db m60272) HM |
| On St. Anthony's Loop east of North Main Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | This is one of the finest surviving examples of Bishop Lamy's French-inspired gothic architecture in New Mexico. Completed in 1906, it is constructed of locally quarried stone instead of traditional adobe. Among its adornments is a painting of . . . — — Map (db m66172) HM |
| Near St. Anthony's Loop east of North Main Street. |
| | For the Glory of God and Country
These died in World War II
Martin Quintana Jr.
Ernesto Ortiz
Pablo V. Roybal
"They died that we may live in peace" — — Map (db m66205) WM |
| On State Road 518 south of State Road 94, on the right when traveling north. |
| | From 1863 to 1867, this mountain was the home of Juan Maria Agostini, an Italian penitent who lived there as a hermit, carving crucifixes and religious emblems which he traded for food. Leaving this area, he moved to the Organ Mountains, in southern . . . — — Map (db m73309) HM |
| On State Road 518 north of State Road 94. |
| | Between Sapello and Mora, State Road 3 follows a narrow strike valley eroded into soft shale between ridges of resistant sandstone called hogbacks, both the result of uplift of the Rocky Mountains. To the east stretch the Great Plains, and to the . . . — — Map (db m73283) HM |
| On New Mexico 104 0.4 miles south of Highway 419, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Prominent landform of
north-eastern New
Mexico that extends for
almost 100 miles
between Las Vegas and
Clayton. From this
point, the grass-lands
of the High Plains
reach northwestward to
the foot of the . . . — — Map (db m144177) HM |
| On Dodge Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 — — Map (db m124188) HM |
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