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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMULA_maria-gertrudis-barcel_Santa-Fe-NM.html
(side one)Maria Gertrudis Barcel? or Do?a Tules, a notorious gambler and courtesan, operated a gambling house and saloon on Burro Alley in Santa Fe. She traveled up El Camino Real from Sonora, Mexico in 1815. Bishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy allowed this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUL8_gold-and-turquoise_Santa-Fe-NM.html
(side one)First gold placer mining west of the Mississippi began with the discovery of the precious metal in the rugged Ortiz Mountains south of here in 1828, 21 years before the California gold rush. Since then, the district has produced more tha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR2P_san-isidro-catholic-church_Santa-Fe-NM.html
This 19th century adobe church is dedicated to San Isidro, ploughman, patron saint of farmers and protector of crops. Christian tradition maintains that in order to allow San Isidro time for his daily prayers an angel plowed his fields. Agua Fria …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR2O_agua-fria_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Caravans entering and leaving Santa Fe on the Camino Real wound their way through scattered agricultural settlements south of the capitol. Although this section of the Santa Fe River Valley was initially utilized as pasture for livestock, in the 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXG_tesuque-rain-gods_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Seated clay figurines known as rain gods or "rain catchers" spring from Tesuque Pueblos's deep-rooted figurative pottery tradition. Popularized in the 1880's, Tesuque women made and sold the figurines in a variety of colors and designs, and earned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXF_pueblo-of-tesuque_Santa-Fe-NM.html
The name Tesuque is a Spanish variation of the Tewa name Tetsugeh, meaninig "narrow place of cotton wood trees." The small Tewa speaking pueblo of Tesuque was established before 1200, and was first visited by Europeans in 1591. It is one of the mo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWZ_feliciana-tapia-viarrial-1904-1988_Santa-Fe-NM.html
Feliciana Tapia Viarrial helped estaablish today's Pueblo of Pojoaque. Pojoaque, or Posuwageh, water drinking place, is a Tewa village founded circa A.D. 900. By 1919, the Pojoaque homelands were severely diminished. Most members left for neighbor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWX_the-st-francis-womens-club_Santa-Fe-NM.html
The St. Francis Women's Club was instrumental in raising funds to rebuild San Francisco de As Church, which had been condemned and demolished in about 1960. Their main fundraiser was the annual Fourth of July Ceremonial, featuring dances of Nambe …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWK_chimayo_Chimayo-NM.html
Indians occupied the Chimayo valley centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards. The village of Chimayo, founded in the early 18th century, shortly after the reconquest of New Mexico, has been a center of the Spanish weaving tradition for over 2…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWI_santuario-de-chimay_Chimayo-NM.html
In 1816, Bernardo Abeyta and the other residents of El Potrero, then a separate community, finished this massive adobe chapel honoring Nuestro Se?or de Esqu?pulas. It is noted for its 6-foot crucifix and its tradition of healing the sick. The Sant…