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Location of San Miguel County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Miguel County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis María Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was ...
The Canadian Escarpment is part of the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains, in the Las Vegas, New Mexico area. It straddles the boundary between the High Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain physiographic provinces, north of the Canadian River. [1] It is situated near the Las Vegas Plateau, which is bounded by the Sangre de Cristo ...
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada and its surrounding unincorporated communities in the Las Vegas Valley are the sites of more than 160 high-rises, [1] 42 of which stand taller than 400 feet (122 m). The tallest structure in the city is the Strat tower, which rises 1,149 feet (350 m) just north of the Las Vegas Strip . [ 2 ]
San Miguel County (Spanish: Condado de San Miguel) is a county in the U.S. state of New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,201. [1] Its county seat is Las Vegas. [2] San Miguel County comprises the Las Vegas Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Albuquerque–Santa Fe–Las Vegas combined statistical area.
The Bridge Street Historic District in Las Vegas, New Mexico was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included 28 contributing buildings and a contributing structure. [1] It includes the Gallinas River Bridge and the 100 block of Bridge St., which was a wagon road before 1879. [2]
Las Vegas prospered with the arrival of the railroad in 1880, and many of the one-story adobe buildings surrounding the plaza were replaced by larger and grander structures like the Italianate style Plaza Hotel and Ilfeld Building. During this period, the plaza itself was cleared of livestock and wagons and converted to a tidy public park with ...
In 1903, citizens of Las Vegas petitioned for a bill to build a "Scenic Road," a wagon road joining the courthouse of Santa Fe with the courthouse of Las Vegas via the canyon of the Santa Fe River and over the mountain range. [10] The proposal, which called for using convict labor to complete this task, passed. [10]