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

This list will also include matches for inflectional* forms of the words.
 
By PaulwC3, July 21, 2013
Wide view of the Valencia Marker
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1 ► New Mexico, Valencia County, Los Lunas — Valencia —
On Main Street NE (State Road 47) at Roberts Circle on Main Street NE.
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

2 ► New Mexico, Valencia County, Belen — "Bethlehem" — Belen, New Mexico —
On South Main Street at Dalies Ave, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street.
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

3 ► New Mexico, Valencia County, Belen — Harvey House — Belen, New Mexico —
On South Main Street at Becker Ave, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street.
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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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
 
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