Santa Fe

When the Spanish first arrived, the Santa Clara Indians referred to this area by the Tewa name, P’o’Karige, or “cold water place.

Thought to be an early home of the Indians from Cochití and other Keres-speaking pueblos, the villages and cliff houses of Frijoles...

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

On January 27, 1838, citizens of Río Arriba rose against the Mexican government over taxation.

This facility was built by the New Mexico State Highway Department to commemorate the bicentennial birthday of the United States.

Strategically located where the Santa Fe Trail emerges from Glorieta Pass, Cañoncito is where the New Mexican governor Manuel Armijo...

Before the arrival of the Spanish, the mineral rich area around Cerrillos produced turquoise, which was broadly traded across the...

This community is on one of the earliest Spanish land grants in the United States.

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

Old Cienega Village Museum Established in the 1700s, Rancho de las Golondrinas was a paraje, or stopping place, which provided a welcome...

When it was described by Gaspar Castaño de Sosa in 1591, the Española Valley contained about ten Tewa-speaking pueblos, several of which...

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

(Pojoaque Pueblo) Feliciana Viarrial helped establish today’s Pueblo of Pojoaque.

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

Spanish explorers found several Tano-speaking pueblos in the Galisteo Basin in 1540.

This pass served as the gateway through the mountains for Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1541 enroute to explore the plains, for...

First gold placer mining west of the Mississippi began with the discovery of the precious metal in the rugged Ortiz Mountains south of...

Golden derives its name from the gold mining operations that have taken place here since the 1820s.

This park is named after Benjamin Talbot Hyde, devoted educator of America’s youth.

Inez Bushner Gill 1918-1982 Inez Bushner Gill impressed governors, legislators and journalists with her fiscal expertise.

La Bajada, NM

This black volcanic escarpment is one of New Mexico’s most important landmarks.

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

Madrid is located in the Ortiz Mountains, one of the United State’s oldest mining regions.

MARY CABOT WHEELWRIGHT (1878−1958) Born in Boston, art heiress Mary Cabot Wheelwright came to New Mexico for an extended visit in the 1920s.

Front: Four Sisters of Loretto, Mother Magdalen Hayden and Sisters Roberta Brown, Rosana Dant and Catherine Mahoney, arrived in Santa Fe...

The small Tewa-speaking pueblo of Tesuque was established around 1300, and was first visited by Europeans in 1591.

The name Tesuque is a Spanish variation of the Tewa name Tet-sugeh, meaning "narrow place of cottonwood trees.

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

The Tewa pueblos of San Juan, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Pojoaque, Nambé, and Tesuque were responsible for directing the 1680 Pueblo...

In August 1680, the Rio Grande and Hopi pueblos, including the northern pueblos of Taos and Picuris and the Tewa towns of San Juan, San...

In 1695, Governor Diego de Vargas founded his first town, Santa Cruz de la Cañada, designed to protect the Spanish frontier north of...

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

In 1695, Governor Diego de Vargas founded Santa Cruz de la Cañada south of the Santa Cruz River.

Eldorado at Santa Fe, NM

Population – 48,899 Elevation – 7,045 Santa Fe, the oldest capital city in the United States, was established in 1610 as the seat of the...

Located on a former guest ranch of 199 acres, the Santa Fe Opera was founded in 1956 as the Opera Association of New Mexico by John...

This adobe church, built sometime between 1776 and 1795, is the oldest shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe in the United States.

Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), naturalist, artist, writer, authority on Indian lore, and first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of...

The first Sisters of Charity arrived in New Mexico Territory in 1865 from Cincinnati at the request of Bishop Lamy with the mission of...

Front: Three Wise Women Eva Scott Fenyes, 1849–1930 Leonora Scott Muse Curtin, 1879–1972 Three generations of one family worked more than...

Accomplished potter and Nambe Pueblo’s first woman lieutenant governor, Virginia’s work has appeared in the Smithsonian Museum and in...