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Ronald Eugene Rosser (October 24, 1929 – August 26, 2020) was a United States Army soldier who received the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for thrice attacking a hill alone, killing 13 enemies while wounded and carrying wounded comrades to safety one winter day in the Korean War.
Joseph Henry Sharp. Joseph Henry Sharp (September 27, 1859 – August 29, 1953) was an American painter and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists, of which he is considered the "Spiritual Father". [1] Sharp was one of the earliest European-American artists to visit Taos, New Mexico, which he saw in 1893 with artist John Hauser. [2]
Taos (/ t aʊ s /) is a town in Taos County, in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano ...
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Taos Pueblo's most prominent architectural feature is a multi-storied residential complex of reddish-brown adobe, built on either side of the Rio Pueblo. The Pueblo's website states it was probably built between 1000 and 1450. [4] The pueblo was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960.
Designated CP. July 8, 1982. The Ernest L. Blumenschein House is a historic house museum and art gallery at 222 Ledoux Street in Taos, New Mexico. It was a home of painter Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874-1960), [3] a co-founder of the Taos Society of Artists and one of the Taos Six. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. [3][2]
Historic site. Green Lawn Cemetery is an active historic private rural cemetery located in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States. Organized in 1848 and opened in 1849, the cemetery was the city's premier burying ground in the 1800s and beyond. An American Civil War memorial was erected there in 1891, and chapel constructed in 1902.
Taos was the most northern stop on the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, also known as the King's Highway, from Mexico City. [11] Mountain men who trapped for beaver nearby made Taos their home in the early 1800s. [6] In December 1826 Kit Carson arrived [12] and later married Josefa Jaramillo from Taos. [7]