Dona Ana
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This site is first mentioned as a paraje along the Camino Real when the Spanish rested near here as they retreated from New Mexico following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The current community was founded after 1839 and for many years stood as the only settlement on the Camino Real between Socorro to the north and El Paso to the south.
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Bartlett Garcia Continental Survey Point
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Butterfield Trail
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Disappearance of Albert J. Fountain and his son Henry
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Albert Jennings Fountain was a Civil War veteran, New Mexico legislator and prominent lawyer.
El Camino Real the King’s Highway
Juan de Oñate, first governor of New Mexico, passed near here with his colonizing expedition in May 1598.
El Paso Del Rio Del Norte
This canyon cut here by the Rio Grande marks the crossing of the historic Camino Real, or Royal Road, to La Tierra Adentra.