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109 East Palace Avenue

In 1943, the Manhattan Project established a top-secret atomic weapons research facility, known as Site Y, in isolated Los Alamos, New Mexico. Scientists and their families soon began arriving in nearby Santa Fe from all over the country, but remained ...

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Santa Fe Plaza

Serving as the historic heart of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Plaza remains a key physical, cultural, and economic landmark within the southwestern state.

The Santa Fe Plaza is a product of Spanish colonialism within the Southwest region. During the ...

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Apple Market

Apple Market is a family friendly grocery store that provides the community of East Pensacola Heights with a comfortable shopping environment and numerous jobs that infuse the local economy. Originally, the building that is now the home of Apple Market ...

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St. Thomas More Catholic Church

The Pensacola area has housed Catholics since its founding by the Spanish. The village of Warrington is not any different. Since the creation of the town, a large number of Catholics lived and worshipped in the area, which continued after ...

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Scenic Highway Portion of the L & N

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad officially opened on November 1, 1859. The original purpose of the railway was to connect the two cities of its namesake, but L & N quickly began to purchase other railroad companies, thus extending their ...

Ashley Pond/Ice House

In 1917, Ashley Pond, a former Roosevelt Rough Rider, established the Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys in the Jemez Mountains north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

On the grounds was a small lake that the school used for a water ...

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Gull Point

Once called Punta del Diablo (Devil's Point), Gull Point is a small community just off of Scenic Highway on Escambia Bay.

Mariana Bonifay received the original Gull Point land grant from the Spanish king in the early 19th Century. As ...

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Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel

The Bayview Fisher-Pou Chapel has served the city of Pensacola for one hundred and forty-two years and continues to serve the members of the community in their hour of need.

In 1868, Felix Bonifay established the first undertaking business in ...

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A.K. Suter Elementary School

A.K. Suter Elementary School has provided the community of East Pensacola Heights and the city of Pensacola with outstanding academic standards for nearly ninety years. It is the oldest school in Escambia County to utilize its original facilities for educational ...

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Loretto Chapel and the Miraculous Staircase

In 1853, Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy and the Kentuckian Sisters of Loretto established the Academy of Our Lady of Light in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In its initial years of operation the academy lacked a proper place of worship, which ...

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