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Historical Markers in Las Vegas, New Mexico
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On New Mexico 283, 0.8 miles west of Romeoville Frontage Road, on the right when traveling west.
The chance meeting
near this spot on
Nov. 13, 1821, of
Capt. Pedro Gallego's
militia with
William Becknell's
party from Missouri
led to the opening
of the Santa Fe Trail. — — Map (db m236775) HM
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 Bridge Street west of Valencia Street, on the right when traveling west.
Built by M.J. Cavanaugh
for Aniceto Baca.
First housed the O.I. Houghton
Hardware and by 1890 the
Appel Brothers Mercantile.
Saibe Segura's confectionary was
located here following
World War II. — — Map (db m236676) HM
On Bridge Street west of Valencia Street, on the right when traveling west.
The original Victorian structure here
housed the Furlong Photography Studio
and the Post Office and later the T.J.
Raywood Liquor Company. Rebuilt after
a 1913 fire it became the Bridge Bar.
The original structure was the first
commercial . . . — — Map (db m236662) HM
On Bridge Street east of South Gonzales Street, on the right when traveling east.
Frank Chapman maintained a granary
and later a billiard parlor in this oldest
structure on Bridge Street. David
Winternitz later added to the building
for his growing general
hardware business. — — Map (db m236696) 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 Hot Springs Boulevard at Plaza Street, on the right when traveling south on Hot Springs Boulevard.
Built for Andres Dold
Designed by Charles Wheelock
Site of Brownlee, Winters & Co.,
druggists, before being sold to
attorney John De Witt Veeder.
The Dold brothers, Andres & John,
were listed among the top five wealth
holders in New Mexico . . . — — Map (db m236738) 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.
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 State Road 104, 0.1 miles east of Tower Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert Raised on a ranch at La Liendre, Fabiola received a degree from New Mexico Normal School. She worked as a rural teacher and an agricultural Home Extension agent. In the 1930s, she became a charter member of La . . . — — Map (db m236575) HM
On Bridge Street at South Gonzales Street, on the left when traveling west on Bridge Street.
Contractor: Charles Stebbins &
Frank Martsoff
Founded by pioneer bankers, the
Raynolds brothers, the First National
Bank expanded to Albuquerque and
El Paso. — — Map (db m236702) 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 New Mexico 283, 0.8 miles west of Romeoville Frontage Road, on the right when traveling east.
The Mexican-American War had just begun in 1846, when Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny brought a regiment of U.S. soldiers and volunteers from the Missouri River into Las Vegas. From a rooftop overlooking the Las Vegas plaza he proclaimed New . . . — — Map (db m236778) HM
On Bridge Street east of North Gonzales Street, on the left when traveling east.
Old Town Las Vegas property owners and over 60 private investors created an innovative partnership to rehabilitate 15 buildings in the Plaza, Bridge Street and Distrito de las Escuelas National Historic Districts. La Plaza Vieja Partnership was a . . . — — Map (db m236688) HM
On North Grand Avenue (U.S. 85) at Legion Drive, on the right when traveling north on North Grand Avenue.
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 Street west of North Gonzales Street, on the right when traveling west.
Louis Ilfeld was the attorney for
the Charles Ilfeld Company. The building
later housed the popular
La Galleria de los Artesanos. — — Map (db m236732) HM
On Bridge Street west of Valencia Street, on the right when traveling west.
Originally a two-story Victorian
hardware store for Marwede, Brumley &
Co., then restructured by Ludwig Ilfeld
after a 1913 fire, this building later
housed the N.T. and
Fair Department Stores. — — Map (db m236665) HM
On Plaza Street west of North Gonzales Street, on the right when traveling west.
One of the oldest buildings in Las Vegas.
Home of Alcalde Juan de Dios Maese.
Site of General Stephen Watts Kearny's
proclamation claiming Nuevo Mexico
for the United States, August 15, 1846. — — Map (db m236726) HM
On Bridge Street east of South Gonzales Street, on the right when traveling east.
Built by the Maloof family on the
site of the W. H. Shupp Carriage
Manufactory, called the “best carriage
works in the Territory,” which
supplied rolling stock throughout
New Mexico and Arizona. The El Rialto
Restaurant was established . . . — — Map (db m236693) HM
On Bridge Street east of South Gonzales Street, on the right when traveling east.
Built by Charles Blanchard. Site of Paul Marcellino's Music Hall. Boffo and Perez Marcellino were also fruit dealers on the Plaza. Korte's Furniture has been located here since 1957 — — Map (db m236690) HM
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 New Mexico 283, 0.8 miles west of Romeoville Frontage Road, on the right when traveling west.
[English side] Near this spot on November 13, 1821, a band of six Missouri traders led by William Becknell, encountered a force of more than 400 Mexican soldiers, militia, and Pueblo Indians under the command of Caption Pedro Ignacio Gallego. . . . — — Map (db m236774) HM
On North Gonzales Street at Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north on North Gonzales Street.
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
Built by Secundino and Cleofes Romero.
One of the last California Mission
Revival Style buildings built in
Las Vegas. Drug stores have occupied
this corner of the Plaza since the
arrival of the railroad . . . — — Map (db m236700) HM
On Plaza Street west of North Gonzales Street, on the right when traveling west.
Home of Las Vegas's founder Miguel
Romero y Baca, and family, this
structure was rebuilt by District Court
stenographer William E. Gortner. — — Map (db m236724) HM
On Hot Springs Boulevard at Plaza Street, on the right when traveling south on Hot Springs Boulevard.
The Veeder Brothers were attorneys
and community leaders. They
resided on the second floor while
Hofmeister's Grocery occupied
the first floor. This is the only
Panel Brick Style building on the Plaza. — — Map (db m236750) HM
On Bridge Street west of Valencia Street, on the right when traveling west.
James Gang members Dick Liddell and
Robert Ford, who was convicted and
pardoned for shooting Jesse James in
the back, opened the Bank Saloon here. — — Map (db m236669) HM
On Bridge Street west of Valencia Street, on the right when traveling west.
At age nineteen, David Chevalier
Winters ran the Trinidad Enterprise
newspaper before coming to Las Vegas
in 1880 as a druggist. The building was
later a saloon and billiard parlor. — — Map (db m236685) 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
Near Railroad Avenue at East Lincoln Street, on the left when traveling south.
The arrival of the Railroad in 1879 had
a profound effect on Las Vegas. For 30
years the main rail line through the
Southwest made Las Vegas the region's
headquarters for the A.T. & S.F.R.R. The
structure is one of the earliest examples
of . . . — — Map (db m236605) HM
On Railroad Avenue at Douglas Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Railroad Avenue.
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
Founded as W.N. Chick & Co. before the
Civil War, the firm became Chick, Browne
& Co. in 1858 and Browne & Manzanares
in 1878. Commission houses served as
ordering agents, transporters and
wholesalers . . . — — Map (db m236597) HM
On 6th Street south of Douglas Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
First Mary J. Woods and later Clara
Waring, were the first to introduce
bookstores to Las Vegas. Later, in the
1930's, Mrs. C. L. M. Bailey also
operated a bookstore in this building. — — Map (db m236638) HM
Near Railroad Avenue at East Lincoln Street, on the right when traveling north.
Imagine the excitement when, on July 4, 1879, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad steamed into town for the first time. Suddenly you could travel from Kansas City to Las Vegas in days, not months. But the arrival of the railroad marked the . . . — — Map (db m236613) HM
Near Railroad Avenue south of East Lincoln Street, on the left when traveling south.
Architects: Issac H. & William M. Rapp
The firm of Otero & Whiting was founded
by Miguel A. Otero in Kansas in 1861.
This large commission company came to
Las Vegas with the railroad and operated
as Otero, Sellar & Co. until 1879. The
firm . . . — — Map (db m236632) HM
Near CanAm Highway (U.S. 85) at Douglas Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Architect: Henry C. Trost
Contractor: Maurice M. Sundt
Built by a community hotel corporation headed by Louis C. Ilfeld. A fight in the lobby between Judge David J. Leahy and muckraking journalist Carl C. Magee left an innocent bystander dead . . . — — Map (db m236580) HM
Built as a saloon and clubrooms by U.S.
Deputy Marshall N. T. Cordova and J.G.
Montano, it later served as the store
and warehouse for a prominent wool
and hides company. — — Map (db m236646) HM
On Railroad Avenue south of Douglas Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
The Rawlins House was built in 1898
by William W. and Josephine Rawlins.
The Rawlins House was the dormitory
for the Harvey Girls who worked at
the Castaneda Hotel. In 1949 it was
purchased by Eisabel and Matilde Pena.
It operated as the Pena . . . — — Map (db m236604) HM
On East Lincoln Street east of CanAm Highway (U.S. 85), on the right when traveling east.
Originally a two-story building that
housed the Wells Fargo Express
Office as well as retail space.
By 1908 the third story
had been added. The building
is an excellent example of World's
Fair Classic Architecture. — — Map (db m236635) HM
