National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm

Abbott Farm is the largest known Middle Woodland (ca. 500 B.C.-500 A.D.) village site in the coastal Mid-Atlantic/New England region.

This property became the focal point of a famous 40-year controversy about the antiquity of human ...

National Historic Landmark - Zuni-Cibola Complex

National Historic Landmark - Zuni-Cibola Complex

The Zuni-Cibola Complex is comprised of a series of sites on the Zuni Reservation, containing house ruins, kivas, pictographs, petroglyphs, trash mounds, and a mission church and convent.

They have proven to be an important source ...

National Historic Landmark - Watrous (La Junta)

National Historic Landmark - Watrous (La Junta)

Here, at the settlement of La Junta de los Rios Mara y Sapello, the Mountain and Cimarron Cutoff routes of the Santa Fe Trail joined.

Wagon trains organized here before entering hostile Indian territory. In ...

National Historic Landmark - Wagon Mound

National Historic Landmark - Wagon Mound

Wagon Mound, a lone stone butte, was the last great landmark on the westward journey across the plains of northeastern New Mexico.

It was a guidepost seen by all travelers on the High Plains section of ...

National Historic Landmark- Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong

National Historic Landmark -Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong

On March 9, 1916, approximately 485 Mexican revolutionaries under the command of Gen. Francisco --Pancho-- Villa (1877?-1923) crossed into the United States and attacked the sleeping border town of Columbus, killing 10 ...

National Historic Landmark- Taos Pueblo

National Historic Landmark -Taos Pueblo

One of the most traditional of the Eastern Pueblos, Taos has borrowed from Anglo- and Spanish-American cultures over centuries of contact, while retaining its cultural integrity and identity as a community.

In the 17th century, the Pueblo ...

National Historic Landmark - Seton Village

National Historic Landmark - Seton Village

The Village grew up around the 45-room castle built by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946, artist, author, scientist, and one of America's greatest naturalists.

Seton was chairman of the committee that brought the Boy Scout movement to ...

National Historic Landmark - Santa Fe Plaza

National Historic Landmark - Santa Fe Plaza

The Plaza has been the social, economic, and (in its early days) defensive center of the city established in the winter of 1609-10; traders and travelers knew it as the terminus of the Santa ...

National Historic Landmark - San Jose De Gracia Church

National Historic Landmark - San Jose De Gracia Church

Erected between 1760 and 1776, this is one of the best-preserved and most representative examples of the Spanish Colonial churches in New Mexico.

Interior decoration includes paintings on carved wooden reredos and sidewalls ...

National Historic Landmark - San Gabriel de Yunque-Ouinge

National Historic Landmark - San Gabriel de Yunque-Ouinge

These ruins mark the site of the first Spanish-built capital of New Mexico, established at a Tewa Pueblo which the Spanish took over.

The capital was moved to Santa Fe in 1610.