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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 ...
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 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 ...
Former football star and celebrity criminal defendant O.J. Simpson was cremated Wednesday, the lawyer handling his estate said following his death last week at home in Las Vegas at age 76.
A Las Vegas funeral home 'accidentally' cremated the remains of a woman meant to be prepared for burial, her family alleged in a lawsuit this week. Woman killed in Las Vegas murder-suicide was ...
The Funeral Mountains is a short, arid mountain range in the United States along the California-Nevada border approximately 100 mi (160 km) west of Las Vegas. The mountains are considered a subrange of the Amargosa Range that form the eastern wall of Death Valley. The crest of the range is within Death Valley National Park.
Member of the New Mexico Senate from the 8th district; In office 1973–1980: Personal details; Born: January 6, 1925 Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S. Died: October 14, 2009 (aged 84) Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S. Political party: Democratic: Other political affiliations: Republican (pre-1960s) Children: 7, including Teresa: Education: New Mexico ...
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]