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In 1893, the government of the United States passed the Ferguson Act, giving the New Mexico Territory lands meant to support New Mexico's schools and universities. While New Mexico had not yet joined the union, the Ferguson Act and the Enabling Act of 1910 were passed in anticipation of New Mexico's scheduled accession in 1912. [8]
New Mexico has only three Interstate Highways: Interstate 10 travels southwest from the Arizona state line near Lordsburg to the area between Las Cruces and Anthony, near El Paso, Texas; Interstate 25 is a major north–south interstate highway starting from Las Cruces to the Colorado state line near Raton; and Interstate 40 is a major east ...
The Maxwell Land grant has an area of 1,714,765 acres (6,939.41 km 2) in New Mexico and southern Colorado.The grant lands measure almost 60 miles (97 km) from north to south and 50 miles (80 km) from east to west, reaching from the Great Plains to the crest of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
In 1846, the United States participated in the Conquest of New Mexico, during the Mexican-American War, which was the start of permanent use of the plateau by settlers. [4] [6] The system of trails and roads in the area were developed more fully between 1887 and 1943 by the local Hispanic and Anglo settlers in the rugged plateau landscape, now ...
The Barrio de Analco Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District centered at the junction of East De Vargas Street and Old Santa Fe Trail in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The seven buildings of the district represent one of the oldest clusters of what were basically working-class or lower-class residences in North America, and are in a ...
The museum was built after the Museum of New Mexico's collection of historic artifacts had outgrown its previous home at the 400-year-old Palace of the Governors. [3] The new US$44 million museum opened to the public on May 24, 2009, holdings around 20,000 artifacts, [4] and receiving more than 10,000 visitors on its first day. [5]
San Lazaro is an archaeological site of pueblos in the U.S. state of New Mexico.Located in the basin of the Galisteo River south of Santa Fe, it was home to a clan of the Tanoan peoples at the time of Spanish colonial contact in the 16th century.
A mural-sized print of the same photograph sold for $930,000 at Christie's New York in October 2021. [18] Peter Bunnell's print of Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico was the highest priced photograph of the April 2023 Phillips Photography auction for an above-estimate $381,000. Bunnell was gifted the large format print directly from Adams in ...