Historic Sites, New Mexico
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- Abó Ruins (Salinas Pueblo Missions) — Historic · Torrance County, NM
Western unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument: red-sandstone mission church and convento of San Gregorio de Abó beside ancestral Pueblo mound rem…
- Acoma Sky City — Historic · Cibola County, NM
Haak'u — Sky City — is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in North America, a mesa-top pueblo of adobe houses, kivas, and the San Esteban d…
- Acoma–Zuni Trailhead (NM 117) — Historic · Cibola County, NM
East trailhead for the cairned ancestral footpath linking Acoma and Zuni pueblos across El Malpais National Monument lava—about 7.5 miles one-way to the NM-5…
- Aztec Ruins National Monument — Historic · San Juan County, NM
Ancestral Pueblo great-house community along the Animas River in the modern city of Aztec. Self-guided half-mile trail through Aztec West (400+ rooms at peak…
- Bandelier National Monument — Historic · Sandoval County, NM
National Park Service monument protecting Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings, cavates, and pueblo ruins along Cañon de los Frijoles on the Pajarito Plateau. Ma…
- Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark — Historic · Roosevelt County, NM
Type locality of the Clovis culture (Blackwater Locality No. 1 / Anderson Basin)—stratified Late Pleistocene spring deposits where fluted Clovis points were …
- Bosque Redondo Memorial — Historic · De Baca County, NM
State historic site and memorial at Fort Sumner interpreting the 1863–1868 Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation—the Long Walk of the Diné (Navajo) and internmen…
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park — Historic · San Juan County, NM
UNESCO World Heritage center of Ancestral Puebloan great-house architecture (c. 850–1250 CE) in a remote high-desert canyon. Pueblo Bonito alone holds ~800 r…
- Coronado Historic Site — Historic · Sandoval County, NM
Tiwa pueblo of Kuaua (“evergreen”) on the Rio Grande west of Bernalillo—settled ~AD 1325, occupied when Coronado’s 1540 entrada entered the valley. Reconstru…
- Cuchillo — Historic · Sierra County, NM
Small Cuchillo Negro Creek settlement west of Elephant Butte country that long served ranch and road traffic between the Black Range foothills and the Rio Gr…
- Datil Well Recreation Area — Historic · Catron County, NM
BLM campground and day-use area at one of the historic water wells along the Magdalena Livestock Driveway (the old cattle trail from western ranges to the ra…
- Duran Historic District — Historic · Torrance County, NM
Duran Historic District is a historic district in Torrance County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, recognized for significanc…
- El Morro National Monument — Historic · Cibola County, NM
Sandstone cuesta and perennial pool where ancestral Puebloans, Spanish travelers, and American soldiers carved names and messages—Inscription Rock—beside the…
- El Porvenir Community Ditch — Historic · Rio Arriba County, NM
El Porvenir Community Ditch is a historic structure in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for sign…
- Embudo Historic District — Historic · Rio Arriba County, NM
Embudo Historic District is a historic district in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, recognized for signific…
- Engle — Historic · Sierra County, NM
Railroad and ranch service point east of Elephant Butte on the Jornada del Muerto fringe, a thin historic place for desert rail geography. Distinct from Elep…
- Folsom — Historic · Union County, NM
Near-ghost village in Union County (2020 population 51) that lends its name to the Folsom Paleo-Indian tradition. A railroad town after 1888, devastated by t…
- Fort Bayard Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
National Historic Landmark district east of Silver City established in 1866—home post for Buffalo Soldier cavalry and later a pioneering Army tuberculosis ho…
- Fort Craig Historic Site — Historic · Socorro County, NM
One of the largest 19th-century frontier forts on the Rio Grande, established 1854. Self-guided trail through adobe ruins, parade ground, and cemetery interp…
- Fort Cummings — Historic · Luna County, NM
U.S. Army post (1863–1873, later reoccupations) guarding Cooke's Spring and the Butterfield Overland Mail route at the foot of Cookes Peak. Adobe wall remnan…
- Fort Selden Historic Site — Historic · Doña Ana County, NM
New Mexico Historic Site preserving adobe ruins of the 1865–1891 U.S. Army post that guarded the Mesilla Valley and El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro. Buffalo…
- Fort Stanton Historic Site — Historic · Lincoln County, NM
One of the most intact 19th-century frontier posts in the Southwest: 240 acres and ~88 stone buildings (officers’ row, barracks, hospital, chapel, stables) s…
- Fort Union National Monument — Historic · Mora County, NM
Three successive U.S. Army forts (1851–1891) on the Santa Fe Trail near Watrous — once the largest military depot in the Southwest. Adobe walls, star fort ea…
- Fort Wingate Historic District — Historic · McKinley County, NM
Fort Wingate Historic District is a historic district in McKinley County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for sign…
- Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument — Historic · Catron County, NM
Mogollon (Southern Ancestral Pueblo) cliff dwellings built in natural caves above Cliff Dweller Creek in the late 1200s. A short loop trail climbs to five ca…
- Hillsboro — Historic · Sierra County, NM
Black Range foothill mining town founded 1877 after gold strikes at the Opportunity and Ready Pay mines along Percha Creek. Once Sierra County seat with cour…
- Isleta Pueblo — Historic · Bernalillo County, NM
Isleta Pueblo is a historic district in Bernalillo County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, recognized for significance in agr…
- Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array — Historic · Socorro County, NM
Iconic radio astronomy observatory of twenty-seven 82-foot dish antennas in a Y-shaped array on the high desert Plains of San Agustin west of Socorro. Public…
- La Cueva Historic District — Historic · Mora County, NM
La Cueva Historic District is a historic district in Mora County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for significance…
- La Lande — Historic · De Baca County, NM
Eastern New Mexico railroad hamlet on the former Belen Cutoff / Transcontinental corridor east of Fort Sumner. La Lande grew as a section and stock-shipping …
- La Luz Historic District — Historic · Otero County, NM
La Luz Historic District is a historic district in Otero County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, recognized for significance …
- La Puente Historic District — Historic · Rio Arriba County, NM
La Puente Historic District is a historic district in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, recognized for signi…
- Lincoln Historic Site — Historic · Lincoln County, NM
New Mexico’s most-visited state historic site preserves most of the main street of 1870s–1880s Lincoln — epicenter of the Lincoln County War and Billy the Ki…
- Los Griegos Historic District — Historic · Bernalillo County, NM
Los Griegos Historic District is a historic district in Bernalillo County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, recognized for sig…
- Lower Animas Ditch — Historic · San Juan County, NM
Lower Animas Ditch is a historic structure in San Juan County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, recognized for significance in…
- Madrid — Historic · Santa Fe County, NM
Former company coal town on the Turquoise Trail (NM-14) between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Once a company-controlled camp famous for massive holiday light dis…
- Magdalena — Historic · Socorro County, NM
Living historic mining and stock-shipping town at the foot of the Magdalena Mountains, once the railhead for the Kelly mining district and a major cattle-dri…
- Mesilla Park Historic District — Historic · Dona Ana County, NM
Mesilla Park Historic District is a historic district in Dona Ana County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016, recognized for sign…
- Montoya — Historic · Quay County, NM
Route 66 and railroad community in Quay County founded in 1902 as a loading point. Visitor interest centers on the Richardson Store (National Register) and r…
- New Mexico Mining Museum — Historic · Cibola County, NM
City of Grants museum interpreting the Grants uranium belt and broader New Mexico hard-rock mining, highlighted by a walk-through underground mine exhibit. C…
- Old Mesilla Plaza — Historic · Doña Ana County, NM
Territorial plaza of historic Mesilla, once capital of the Confederate Territory of Arizona and a Butterfield Overland Mail stop. Adobe church of San Albino …
- Oliver Lee Memorial State Park — Historic · Otero County, NM
Chihuahuan Desert state park at the mouth of Dog Canyon on the west escarpment of the Sacramento Mountains south of Alamogordo. Preserves Oliver Milton Lee’s…
- Otowi Historic District — Historic · Santa Fe County, NM
Otowi Historic District is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, recognized for significanc…
- Pancho Villa State Park — Historic · Luna County, NM
Border-town state park in Columbus preserving Camp Furlong remnants and the National Historic Landmark story of Pancho Villa’s 9 March 1916 raid—the last maj…
- Pecos National Historical Park — Historic · San Miguel County, NM
NPS historical park preserving Cicuye/Pecos Pueblo (once a multi-story trade hub of 2,000+ people), the Spanish mission church ruins, Forked Lightning Ranch,…
- Picuris Pueblo — Historic · Taos County, NM
Picuris Pueblo is a historic district in Taos County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for significance in agricult…
- Pie Town — Historic · Catron County, NM
High-country hamlet on U.S. 60 in Catron County, known for pie cafes, Continental Divide Trail resupply, and Russell Lee’s 1940 Farm Security Administration …
- Point of Rocks Historic District — Historic · Colfax County, NM
Point of Rocks Historic District is a historic district in Colfax County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, recognized for sign…
- Posi-Ouinge Recreation Area — Historic · Rio Arriba County, NM
BLM-managed ancestral Tewa pueblo ruins (Posi-ouinge) on a mesa above Ojo Caliente, with a short public trail (~1 mi RT) to roomblock mounds and interpretive…
- Puerto de Luna — Historic · Guadalupe County, NM
Pecos River valley settlement south of Santa Rosa, a historic Hispanic community and county-seat era place along the river corridor. Historic pin for valley …
- Quarai Ruins (Salinas Pueblo Missions) — Historic · Torrance County, NM
NPS unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument north of Mountainair preserving a Southern Tiwa pueblo occupied from about A.D. 1300 and the red-sandst…
- Raton Pass — Historic · Colfax County, NM
Raton Pass is a historic site in Colfax County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in commerce; mili…
- Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada — Historic · Santa Fe County, NM
Route 66 and National Old Trails Road Historic Distric at La Bajada is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Histori…
- Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (Gran Quivira) — Historic · Torrance County, NM
Largest of the three Salinas Pueblo Missions units: ancestral Pueblo rooms and the massive limestone walls of San Buenaventura and San Isidro mission churche…
- Salmon Ruins — Historic · San Juan County, NM
Chacoan great-house pueblo built ~1090 CE on a San Juan River terrace west of Bloomfield—originally 275–300 rooms with an elevated tower kiva and plaza great…
- San Geronimo Historic District — Historic · San Miguel County, NM
San Geronimo Historic District is a historic district in San Miguel County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, recognized for si…
- San Ildefonso Pueblo — Historic · Santa Fe County, NM
San Ildefonso Pueblo is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, recognized for significance i…
- San Juan Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
San Juan Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for significanc…
- San Lorenzo Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
San Lorenzo Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, recognized for signific…
- San Miguel del Vado — Historic · San Miguel County, NM
Spanish colonial plaza village and Pecos River ford that anchored the San Miguel del Vado Land Grant (1794) and later the Santa Fe Trail corridor south of La…
- San Rafael (Ojo del Gallo) — Historic · Cibola County, NM
Historic Hispanic village of San Rafael (formerly El Gallo) at Ojo del Gallo spring south of Grants on the malpais edge—site of the first Fort Wingate (1862)…
- Santa Fe Historic District — Historic · Santa Fe County, NM
Santa Fe Historic District is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, recognized for signific…
- Seton Village — Historic · Santa Fe County, NM
Seton Village is a historic district in Santa Fe County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in art; …
- Silver City Historic District — Historic · Grant County, NM
Silver City Historic District is a historic district in Grant County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, recognized for signific…
- Smokey Bear Historical Park — Historic · Lincoln County, NM
State historic park in Capitan commemorating the real Smokey Bear cub rescued from the 1950 Capitan Gap fire in the Lincoln National Forest. Museum exhibits,…
- Sunspot Solar Observatory Visitor Center — Historic · Otero County, NM
Public visitor center at the end of the Sunspot Scenic Byway (NM-6563) on Sacramento Peak (~9,200 ft) serving the historic National Solar Observatory / Sunsp…
- Taiban — Historic · De Baca County, NM
Near-ghost railroad hamlet on the eastern De Baca plains at the base of Taiban Peak country, a Belen Cutoff / eastern New Mexico rail-era stop that dwindled …
- Taos Pueblo — Historic · Taos County, NM
Taos Pueblo is a historic district in Taos County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in native amer…
- Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch — Historic · Rio Arriba County, NM
Tierra Amarilla Community Ditch is a historic structure in Rio Arriba County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, recognized for …
- Tijeras Pueblo Archaeological Site — Historic · Bernalillo County, NM
Fourteenth-century Ancestral Pueblo village (~200 rooms in a U-shaped layout with a large central kiva) behind the Sandia Ranger Station on NM 337 in Tijeras…
- Wagon Mound — Historic · Mora County, NM
Isolated volcanic butte and National Historic Landmark on the Santa Fe Trail’s Cimarron Cutoff—the last great trail landmark before travelers reached the mou…
- Watrous — Historic · Mora County, NM
Watrous is a historic district in Mora County, NM, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, recognized for significance in commerce; trans…
- Winston — Historic · Sierra County, NM
Quiet Black Range mining-era settlement on NM 52 that still anchors the Pioneer Store Museum—an intact late-1800s mercantile stocked with period goods. Winst…
- Yeso — Historic · De Baca County, NM
Sparsely occupied high-plains railroad and ranch settlement on the US 60 corridor in western De Baca County, gazetted as a populated place and emblematic of …