Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel
Inscription
Only ruins remain of the chapel of Santa Rosa de Lima, licensed in 1737. The village associated with the chapel – La Plaza de Santa Rosa de Lima de Abiquiu –was repeatedly attacked by some Indian groups and temporarily abandoned until the area was re-settled in the 1750s. Population shifts in the Chama valley during the following century resulted in abandonment of the plaza by 1847.
The chapel, however, remained in use until the early 1900s.
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