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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FXZ_1610_Santa-Fe-NM.html
New Mexico third governor, Pedro de Peralta was instructed to relocate the capital to a more central location. He founded the Villa de Santa Fe, or Town of Holy Faith. The villa was named for a city of Spain built by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FXL_1598_Santa-Fe-NM.html
The viceroy of New Spain appointed Juan de O?ate as New Mexico first governor and directed him to settle the area along the upper Rio Grande. Accompanied by 200 settlers and over 7,000 head of livestock, O?ate arrived in New Mexico and established…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FX4_1540_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Seeking to expand the domain of the King of Spain in 1540, Francisco Vquez de Coronado led an expedition of over 1,000 men and women north from Mexico into what is now Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The Spanish explorers, in sear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FWB_500-a-d_Santa-Fe-NM.html
From 500 A.D. onward, New Mexico underwent a number of comparatively rapid changes. The people throughout the western two-thirds of the state became increasingly restricted to smaller and smaller areas resulting in the development of many regional…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FW7_375th-anniversary-of-santa-fe_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the United States, a successful blend of three cultures and yet a modern city of over 50,000 residents.
The Commemorative Walkway Park, constructed in 1986, provides a historical walk through Santa Fe from 5…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EEF_billy-the-kid_Santa-Fe-NM.html
The notorious New Mexico outlaw, also known as William Bonney, was captured and sucessfully imprisoned for the last time in the downstairs jail housed in this, the Cornell Building, at 208 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe, from December 27, 1880 to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E2N_hyde-memorial-state-park_Santa-Fe-NM.html
This park is named after Benjamin Talbot Hyde, devoted educator of America's youth. His family donated the 350 acres which constitutes the park to the State of New Mexico in 1934. Situated at an elevation of 8,500 feet in the scenic Sangre de Cris…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E0S_another-korean-war-memorial_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Remember those Santa Feans who went to fight in the mud, the snow, and the choking dust of a strange land: Korea 1950-1053.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DYA_cross-of-the-martyrs_Santa-Fe-NM.html
In 1598 a group of Spanish colonists, led by Juan de O?ate of Zacatecas, Mexico, established a settlement along the banks of the Rio Grande north of present-day Espa?ola. In 1610 Governor Pedro de Peralta relocated the capital of the province to S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DPW_fray-angelico-chavez_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Priest - Poet - Historian - ArchivistArtist - Author - Biographer - Genealogist And native-born New Mexican
Major, U.S. Army - W.W. II & Korean Conflict"THE LOVE I Love is one, but one, The only Rose!"From The Single Rose 1948
This statue co…