Farmington, NM

Human habitation in and around the Farmington, New Mexico area began with an ancient pueblo people known as the "Anasazi", a Navajo word meaning "ancient ones," who lived in the area over 2000 years ago.

The Anasazi in the Farmington area ...

Farmington Odd Fellows Lodge #296

Built in 1881, the building was bought by the newly instituted Lodge on July 11, 1882. The upstairs has served continuously as a meeting hall since then.

Dedicated on October 8, 1994

Tuleburgh Chapter #69, E Clampus Vitus

Marker is at the intersection ...

Farmington

Population 30,792 Elevation 5395 ft

Until 1876 this area comprised part of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation. Anglo settlement quickly began at the confluence of the San Juan, Animas, and La Plata Rivers. Farmington became a ranching and farming area and, later, ...

Farmington

Farmington

Laid Out 1640

As Tunxis Plantation

A Trading Center

Of Frontier Area

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Connecticut Route 10) and Carrington Lane, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.

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Footloose in Farmington:

A Historic Perspective of Downtown

Farmington, New Mexico, the heart of the Four Corners, boasts a thriving downtown, where character, history and culture fuse in a mixture of places and events. Originally the land in what is now Northwest New Mexico ...

Farmington Veterans Memorial

Duty • Honor • Country

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U.S. Army • Suppression of Pequots (1637) • King Philip's War (1675 – 76) • Jobanna Smith • French & Indian Skirmishes (1711 – 12) • Defense Of Litchfield (1724) • Louisburg Expedition ...

Farmington, New Mexico

First settled 1876 to 1878 by families of William and Marion B. Hendrickson, Charles and Milton Virden, Orville Pyle, A.F. Miller and William Lock. The first school-house was built in 1879; the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886. William Lock started ...

The Farmington Canal

The Farmington Canal

The 56-mile Farmington Canal was Connecticut's super-highway of the 1830s and 1840s. Begun in 1825, the canal was the largest engineering project ever attempted in New England. Inspired by the commercial success of the Erie Canal, ...

Farmington Disaster

Explosion in Consolidated Coal No. 9 mine November 20, 1968 resulted in deaths of 78 miners, with only 21 men rescued. Mine sealed ten days later due to fires and explosions. In 1969 recovery efforts began. Over ten year period ...