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George Curry, a former territorial governor of New Mexico and congressman from that state, was reported in April 1932 to have died in Hillsboro, New Mexico. Curry's son Clifford unsuccessfully sued the Albuquerque Journal for causing a heart attack upon Clifford's reading the story in the newspaper. [101] George Curry died in 1947.
Rogers Administration Building: September 22, 1988 : National Ave., on the New Mexico Highlands University campus Las Vegas ... Off NM 65/104: Las Vegas: See also
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 ...
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The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Las Vegas, New Mexico. Pages in category "People from Las Vegas, New Mexico" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
It is believed that in 1880, Chávez murdered a dangerous convict in a New Mexico jail. Chávez became adrift after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, traveling across the American Southwest, sometimes without any particular destination in mind. He did arrive at Las Vegas, New Mexico, in time to meet Bob Ford, the killer of Jesse James. According ...
Old Town Residential Historic District is a historic district dating back to 1840. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]The district plus the previously NRHP-listed Distrito de las Escuelas comprises the majority of the historic residential architecture of West Las Vegas, mostly adobe structures.
Salazar was probably born on 14 Feb 1858 (or 1857) in Valencia County, New Mexico. In the 1860 census of Valencia County, he is listed as age 2 in the household as the son of Teofilo and Paula (Paubla) Salazar in the Quara & Cienga area. Also listed in this household are siblings Lugarda (12), Francisco (8), Magencia (6) Romulo (5) and José (2).