On Plaza Street at Manzanares Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Plaza Street.
This building, erected about 1880, contains one of the oldest, continuously operated drugstores in New Mexico (since 1898).
Site No. 506
A Registered Cultural Property
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235425) HM
On West Church Street east of Eaton Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Built in 1887. Eastlake style home of prominent New Mexico politician
Site No. 297
A Registered Cultural Property State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235406) HM
On Fisher Avenue east of Frassinet Street, on the left when traveling east.
Built between 1886 and 1898 in a simplified Gothic Revival style.
Site No. 592
A Registered Cultural Property
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235423) HM
On Mount Carmel Avenue west of Lopez Place, on the right when traveling west.
This residence, built about 1880, is a significant [illegible] of the early Mt. Carmel Avenue neighborhood.
Site No. 635
A Registered Cultural Property
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235408) HM
Near Romero Street, on the left when traveling north.
(front): Victory Awaits You. (back): This monument honors and perpetuates the memory of the brave Texas citizen volunteers who offered their lives and fortunes in the defense of the Confederate states of America during the war for . . . — — Map (db m64055) HM WM
On Interstate 25 at milepost 114, on the right when traveling north.
Fort Craig was established in 1853 and garrisoned in 1854 with troops from Fort Conrad located about nine miles north. Named after Capt. Louis S. Craig, it was used to control Indian raids along the Jornada del Muerto. Troops from Fort Craig were . . . — — Map (db m45130) HM
On Fisher Avenue at Frassinet Street, on the right when traveling west on Fisher Avenue.
Built in 1912, this house is a good example of the hipped-roof adobe style architecture then popular in New Mexico.
A Registered Cultural Property
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235420) HM
On Abeyta Avenue at Bernard, on the right when traveling west on Abeyta Avenue.
A Registered Cultural Property
Built circa 1870.
Original home of a
prominent territorial New
Mexico merchant and
political figure.
Site No. 153
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m196735) HM
On Plaza Street at Center Street, on the right when traveling east on Plaza Street.
This is a fragment from Jumbo, a huge steel vessel designed to contain the explosion of the first nuclear device at the Trinity Site some 35 miles southeast of here on July 16, 1945. Jumbo was 25 feet long, 12 feet in diameter, and weighed 214 tons. . . . — — Map (db m35908) HM
On Manzanares Avenue east of California Street (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling east.
Built in the 1800s, the prime example in Socorro of the Italianate commercial style.
Site No. 594
A Registered Cultural Property
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235427) HM
Based on personal collection willed to the New Mexico School of Mines by C.T. Brown in 1928, this museum displays thousands of mineral specimens from around the world with special emphasis on minerals found in New Mexico. Highlights include . . . — — Map (db m38753) HM
On Leroy Pl at College Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Leroy Pl.
Founded in 1889 as New Mexico's School of Mines, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology offers degrees through the doctorate in a number of science and engineering disciplines. In addition to its academic functions, the institute also . . . — — Map (db m38461) HM
On Interstate 25 at milepost 114, on the right when traveling north.
The mountain range seen along the east bank of the Rio Grande is named after Father Cristobal de Salazar of the 1598 Juan de Oñate expedition. The northern edge of the twenty-one mile range is said to resemble the profile of the good friar. This . . . — — Map (db m45132) HM
On Manzanares Avenue west of 6th Street, on the right when traveling west.
A remodeled commercial structure of Socorro's boom period of the late 1800s.
Site No. 596
A Registered Cultural Property
State of New Mexico — — Map (db m235428) HM
On Grant Street (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling east.
The Piro Indian pueblo Teypana was visited by Juan de Oñate in 1598. The people of the village reportedly supplied corn to Oñate who bestowed the name Socorro ("aid" in Spanish) on the pueblo. In 1626, the mission of Nuestra Señora de Socorro was . . . — — Map (db m38462) HM
On Terry Avenue at School of Mines Road, on the right when traveling east on Terry Avenue.
In 1598, Juan de Oñate's Spanish colonization expedition arrived here at the Piro Indian Pueblo of Pilabo, They renamed it Socorro owning to the food and shelter provided by Pilabo's inhabitants. The pueblo and its Spanish mission were destroyed . . . — — Map (db m45177) HM
On California Street at Abeyta Avenue, on the left when traveling north on California Street.
Using the gold he had left her, the widow of Juan Nepomuceno Garcia began construction of the Garcia Opera House is 1884. It was completed three years later in 1887. It served as the main center for cultural and community events including theatrical . . . — — Map (db m45176) HM
On Interstate 25 at milepost 114, on the right when traveling north.
In 1541 an expedition from the army of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, New Mexico’s first explorer, marched south 80 leagues to investigate the pueblos along the lower Río Grande. The group reached that part of the infamous Jornada del Muerto, now . . . — — Map (db m45129) HM
Near State Road 60, 1 mile west of Road 52, on the left when traveling west.
Commemorating
20 Years of Frontier Science
At the VLA
Pete V. Domenici
United States Senator
Dr. Rita R. Colwell
Director
National Science Foundation
Dr. Paul C. Martin
Chairman of the Board
Associated Universities, Inc. . . . — — Map (db m102671) HM
On Interstate 25 at milepost 114, on the right when traveling north.
Front of Marker
In 1598 the first Spanish settlers in New Mexico traveled up the Camino Real from north-central Mexico. Of the 560 people so far identified on that expedition, at least 20 percent were women. They came on foot, on wagons or . . . — — Map (db m45131) HM
