Puerto de Luna

Established by the early 1860s, Puerto de Luna is one of southeast New Mexico’s oldest permanent settlements. An important farming and ranching center, the town was the Guadalupe County seat from 1891 until 1903. A strong oral tradition maintains that ...

Pine Level Baptist Church

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This church, organized on January 6, 1872 with Rev. M.H. Shuman as its first minister, held services in members' homes until a sanctuary, built in 1906

was built on this site between 1876 and 1881. A second sanctuary, ...

Apache Grove

This area served as a resting place for Apache war parties during the raids of the 1880's. Near here Felix B. Knox, a cattleman and gambler, stayed behind to face Indians while his wife, children, and hired man escaped in ...

Main Street

"Broadest Street in the World'

Made

316 feet wide by the City and the

S.C. Highway Department after

moving the C.&W.C. Railways Depot

facilities from this plot in,

1949

Paul B. Ellis, Mayor

J.J. Rauch, City Manager

Councilmen

R.C. Herman, ...

Graham County Courthouse

1916

Since Graham County's formation in 1881 the courthouse had been relocated four times. It had been housed in an adobe structure in Safford, two sites in Solomonville, and the Rig's Building on Main Street when the county seat was returned ...

Grays Consolidated High School

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This school, built in 1927 and

rebuilt in 1931, was one of many

constructed in the late 1920s, as

small rural one- or two-room schools

were consolidated into elementary or

high schools in towns and cities.

Built on land donated by Robert ...

The Cisterns

A reliable supply of drinking water for the garrison was a priority at Fort Washington. Three wells dug early in the fort's construction proved inadequate.

By 1823, four cisterns were installed to store rainwater. Located underground at each end of the ...

The Storey County Jail

Comstock Historical Maker No. 17

This two-story jail was completed in 1877, and featured ten individual cells, each of which had bunk beds and “state of the art” plumbing for the day. Women were housed on the second level and men ...

George Washington Encampment

1779 – 1912

In this field, General George Washington encamped for a night on a march from Newburg to Morristown in 1779 to meet General Lafayette.

With him was an aide, Lieutenant John Kays of Sussex County, a soldier of the American ...

Safford City Hall

1898

Safford City Hall started life as a school building. Safford School System bids for the North Ward School were opened in February 1898. The contract was awarded to R. A. Smith Jr. and John Morris. The new building was ready ...