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Before European colonization of the Americas, the area Santa Fe occupied between AD 900 and the 1500s was known to the Tewa peoples as Oghá P'o'oge [a] ("white shell water place", one of a number of places named for their water access) [18] and by the Navajo people as Yootó ("bead" + "water place").
Pedro de Peralta (c. 1584 – 1666) was Governor of New Mexico between 1610 and 1613 at a time when it was a province of New Spain.He formally founded the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610.
1836 — Texas claims all land in the territory east of the Rio Grande, including Santa Fe; the claim is never reified. September 1841 — The 320 members of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition fail to capture Santa Fe or any part of the territory. 1846 — General Stephen W. Kearny's army enters Santa Fe via the Santa Fe Trail without opposition.
The Santa Fe Railroad reached New Mexico in 1878, with the first locomotive crossing Raton Pass that December. It reached Lamy, New Mexico, 16 miles (26 km) from Santa Fe in 1879 and Santa Fe itself in 1880, and Deming in 1881, thereby replacing the storied Santa Fe Trail as a way to ship cattle to market. The new town of Albuquerque, platted ...
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996. [ 1 ] The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport ; at various times, it operated an airline, the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway, and the ...
The name stuck and was added to state license plates beginning in 1955. Although the nickname remains commonplace well into the 21st century—influencing pop culture, like the 2010s TV series ...
Mystery continues to swirl around the deaths of Gene and Betsy Hackman, who were found deceased in their Santa Fe, N.M., home around at about 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Gene, 95, was found ...
Spanish Fork, Utah (its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route ...