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The Mesilla Park Historic District, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1] The listing included 131 contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 184 acres (74 ha). [2] It is roughly bounded by Bowman St., Union and University Aves., and Park Drain. [2]
Mesilla Plaza is the central plaza in the small town of Mesilla in far southern New Mexico.The plaza and a number of its surrounding buildings are a National Historic Landmark District, significant for its role in the transfers of power that brought first the original New Mexico Territory and later the Gadsden Purchase into United States control.
Mesilla (also known as La Mesilla and Old Mesilla) is a town in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,797 at the 2020 census. [5] It is part of the Las Cruces Metropolitan Statistical Area. During the Civil War, Mesilla briefly served as capital of the Confederate Territory of Arizona.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
All in day's work at La Posta de Mesilla, near Las Cruces. Restaurant employee Julia Sanchez mixes 40 gallons of cooking red chile, while her daughter Alejandra Carrasco, in the back, cooks ground ...
The church later became part of two dioceses after they were established: the Roman Catholic Diocese of El Paso in 1916, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces in 1982. In 2008, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in the Vatican granted minor basilica status to San Albino.
Las Cruces (/ l ɑː s ˈ k r uː s ɪ s /; Spanish: [las 'kruses] "the crosses") is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico and the seat of Doña Ana County.As of the 2020 census, its population was 111,385, [5] making Las Cruces the most populous city in both Doña Ana County and southern New Mexico. [6]
Fort Fillmore, located at 32°13′30″N 106°42′52″W, [2] [3] was a United States military fortification established by Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner in September 1851 near Mesilla in what is now New Mexico, primarily for the purpose of protecting settlers and traders traveling to California.