Socorro

Traveling with the colonizing expedition of Juan de Oñate, Doña Eufemia rallied Spanish soldiers to persevere when morale broke down...

Fort Craig is on alluvial gravelly sands, derived from mountains to the west, sloping toward the Rio Grande to the east.

Using the gold he and left her, the widow of Juan Nepomuceno Garcia began construction of the Garcia Opera House is 1884.

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...

Socorro, NM

Present-day La Joya is located near the site of an ancient Piro Indian pueblo that the Spanish named Nueva Sevilla, or Sevilleta.

During the late 17th century, this area had become well known to the Spanish.

Named for Magdalena Peak, Magdalena is located in a mineral-rich area which became a center for silver and zinc mining in the 1860s.

Socorro, NM

Magdalena is located in a mineral-rich area which became a center of silver mining in the 1860s.

The Chihuahua Trail passed by the large volcanic mesa on the east bank of the Río Grande, marking the northern end of the Jornada del...

Founded in 1889 as New Mexico's School of Mines, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology offers degrees through the doctorate in a...

Established in the 1840s on the east bank of the Rio Grande, San Pedro became an important trading center along the Camino Real.

Established in 1816 at the time of the original Spanish land grant, this plaza developed into the traditional social, political and...

The nuclear age began with the detonation of world’s first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site on July 16, 1945.

In 1541 an expedition from the army of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, New Mexico’s first explorer, marched south 80 leagues to...