Taos

Originally founded as Pina, the mountain village was established within the 1844 Sangre de Cristo land grant by settlers who came...

San Cristobal, NM

The valley in which this community is located is mentioned in Spanish colonial documents as early as 1716.

Never officially designated a fort, this post was built to protect the Taos valley from Utes and Jicarilla Apaches.

Arroyo Hondo, NM

Side One: Captive Women and Children of Taos County In August 1760, around sixty women and children were taken captive in a Comanche raid...

This is one of several plazas established along the Rio Costilla in 1849 within the Sangre de Cristo land grant.

Taos, NM

The site’s many structures include three studios of Taos Society of Artists founders Eanger Irving Couse, its first president, and Joseph...

In 1868, Christopher “Kit” Carson, the legendary guide, scout, soldier, and trapper, died in Fort Lyons, Colorado.

Construction began on La Cienega School in 1934 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project.

Construction began on La Cienega School in 1934 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project.

The village of Las Trampas was established as a Spanish-American agricultural community in 1751 by 12 families from Santa Fe led by Juan...

Elevation: 9,101 Palo Flechado (tree pierced with arrows) Pass was used by natives and newcomers traveling from the eastern plains to...

In 1795, twenty-five families were granted land along the Río Grande at Pilar, then known as Cieneguilla.

The Plaza del Medio, “Middle Plaza”, Costilla, New Mexico, is one of seven plazas built in the area after 1849.

A winter hunting ground for many indigenous people, this area was originally homeland for the Ute people.

Second highest bridge on the National Highway System, rises 650 feet above the stream of the Rio Grande.

This Mission Church is one of the oldest churches in American dedicated to San Francisco de Asis.

The Santa Barbara Tie and Pole Co., 1907-1926, began its operation at Tres Ritos, the confluence of three creeks.

The Tiwa people of Taos Pueblo have lived in this area for at least one thousand years.

San Cristobal, NM

In 1692, after having been driven from New Mexico by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Spanish began to re-establish their rule.

Spanish settlers lived in the Taos Valley before the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, but the town of Fernández de Taos was not founded until the...

San Cristobal, NM

This village was founded and abandoned several times between 1815 and the mid 1840s.