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A Grander Church Abó's first priest, Friar Francisco Fonte, supervised construction of the original “San Gregorio de Abó” from 1622-27. In 1640, Friar Francisco de Acevedo became guardian here and began church renovation. When completed in 1651, . . . — — Map (db m235479) HM
A Kiva Here? Rock walls and unearthed relics can tell us only so much about what people believed 350 years ago. The mysterious, round structure before you resembles a kiva. In Pueblo tradition, kivas are underground meeting chambers for . . . — — Map (db m235521) HM
Crossroads In the 17th century, an ancient trade route that linked the Rio Grande to the Great Plains shared this fragile mountain valley with a bustling pueblo full of people who spoke Tompiro. When a single Spanish priest walked into town in . . . — — Map (db m235524) HM
Fred Sisneros' Grave Don Federico “Fred” Sisneros (1894-1988) had close ties to these ruins. His ancestors helped to resettle Abó in 1869. Fred's father owned this land and charged his young son with caring for the old mission. Later, Fred . . . — — Map (db m235527) HM
Mystery in ruins On December 17, 1853 – almost 175 years after the Tompiros and Franciscans left – a U.S. Army expedition came upon Abó. Their leader, Major James H. Carleton, wrote:
In the mystery that envelops everything . . . — — Map (db m235528) HM
New Songs The worn stairs before you endured over 50 years of small Tompiro boys hurrying to join the adults in the choir loft above. Franciscans in Mexico in the 1500s had noted how powerfully music aided their mission efforts. Friars here in . . . — — Map (db m235506) HM
People at Work Ahead and to your right you see a complex maze of rooms: the convento of Mission Abó. Here, two dozen Tompiros tackled many tasks crucial to running a mission – from herding livestock and maintaining church properties to grinding . . . — — Map (db m235501) HM
[English] No one lived at Abó from the 1680s until 1815, when Spanish sheep ranchers resettled here. To protect themselves from hostiles, they built this plazuela – a fortified ranch – with barn and corrals completely enclosed by . . . — — Map (db m235445) HM
Prayers and Hymns For 17th-century Catholics, this church nave was the spiritual heart of Mission San Gregorio de Abó. When worshippers – both the indigenous people and nearby settlers from Spain – came to hear Mass, they stood and knelt. There . . . — — Map (db m235519) HM
[English] These mounds are all that is left of a pueblo that for 300 years was a center for commerce and ceramic production. Indigenous traders from the Great Plains and nearby pueblos came to Abó to barter for pottery, salt, corn, and . . . — — Map (db m235447) HM
Edward Smith, William Taylor and Oliver P. DeWolfe of Cedarvale Kansas laid out this community in 1908. Hundreds of homesteaders arrived on immigrant trains. Most farmed pinto beans, shipping their crops to distant markets. In 1917 the community . . . — — Map (db m72667) HM
Incorporated in 1909 and county seat of Torrance County since 1905, Estancia is located in an enclosed valley or basin. It was ranching country until the early 20th century, when the coming of the railroad opened it to homesteaders and farmers. . . . — — Map (db m72666) HM
Incorporated in 1909 and county seat of Torrance County since 1905, Estancia is located in an enclosed valley or basin. It was ranching county until the early 20th century, when the coming of the railroad opened it up to homesteaders and farmers. . . . — — Map (db m73507) HM
Estancia, "resting place", has been on the map since 1776. Known for its spring fed pond, now its city park. It become the county seat in 1905 and was the scene of the last hanging in New Mexico in 1922. — — Map (db m73509) HM
Eighty-million acres of public land in the West went into private ownership by 1900 through the 1862 Homestead Act. New Mexico drew hundreds of settlers who built homes and farmed 160-acre allotments in pursuit of a better life. Mollie Klapp was . . . — — Map (db m103053) HM
In English:
Crossroads
In the 17th century, an ancient trade route that linked the Rio Grande to the Great Plains shared this fragile mountain valley with a bustling pueblo full of people who spoke Tompiro. When a single Spanish . . . — — Map (db m62066) HM
Located adjacent to the major east-west trade route through Abó Pass, the Tompiro Pueblo of Abó (ca. 1300s-1670s) was one of the Southwest’s largest Pueblo Indian villages. Extensive Indian house complexes are dominated by the unique buttressed . . . — — Map (db m119761) HM
The Tompiro Indian “Pueblo de las Humanas" (ca. 1300-1670s) had 1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants and was a trading center with Plains Indians. The village evolved for centuries on the fringe of the Mogollon and Anasazi cultures. There are two large . . . — — Map (db m119759) HM
Founded in 1902, Mountainair developed as a major center for pinto bean farming in the early 20th century until the drought of the 1940s. The region had been occupied earlier by Tompiro and eastern Tiwa pueblo Indians from prehistoric times through . . . — — Map (db m75511) HM
Founded in 1902, Mountainair developed as a major center for pinto bean farming in the early 20th century until the drought of the 1940s. The region had been occupied earlier by Tompiro and eastern Tiwa pueblo Indians from prehistoric times through . . . — — Map (db m75512) HM
On the edge of the Plains stands the abandoned Tiwa Pueblo Indian village of Quarai (ca. 1200–1670s), the southernmost of the Tiwa villages, located along the eastern flanks of the Manzano Mountains. The Spanish Franciscan mission church of La . . . — — Map (db m119760) HM
Located 10 miles from the center of the state, this high desert town was established in 1902. Ancient cities, pinto beans and ranching make its history. The railroad, natural beauty, Salinas Pueblo cultures and a pioneering spirit are reflected in . . . — — Map (db m92608) HM
The pueblo-mission of San Miguel de Tajique was established in the 1620s. In the 1670s, famine, disease and Apache raids caused the abandonment of the Jurisdiccion de las Salinas (1598-1678) which included Tajique. Modern occupation of Tajique began . . . — — Map (db m75510) HM
Numerous salt ponds and lakes of which Laguna del Perro is the largest, occur in the lowest part of the Estancia basin, a closed depression between the Manzano Mountains to the west and the lower Pedernal hills to the east. The Basin was filled by a . . . — — Map (db m75513) HM
