Plaza de la Mesilla

One of the few remaining sites which recall the Mexican heritage of Tucson, it acquired its name after the Gadsden Purchase (1854) as the terminus of the wagon road joining Tucson to the territorial capital, then at Mesilla. When San ...

Plaza de Mesilla

Conservation made possible by grants from

United States Department of Commerce

Economic Development Administration

New Mexico

American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

and by matching funds from the

Town of Mesilla

and individual contributions

1976~1977

Marker is on Calle de Parian, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org