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Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census , [5] down from the figure of 1,249 recorded in 2000 . Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility .
On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the construction of Fort Sumner. General James Henry Carleton initially justified the fort as offering protection to settlers in the Pecos River valley from the Mescalero Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche. He also created the Bosque Redondo reservation, a 1,600-square-mile (4,100 km 2; 1,000,000-acre) [3] area ...
Oliver Loving (December 4, 1812 – September 25, 1867) was an American rancher and cattle driver. Together with Charles Goodnight, he developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail. He was mortally wounded by Native Americans while on a cattle drive. Loving County, Texas, the Least-populous county in the United States is named in his honor.
Lucien Bonaparte Maxwell (September 14, 1818 – July 25, 1875) [1] was a mountain man, rancher, scout, and farmer who at one point owned more than 1,700,000 acres (6,900 km 2 ). Along with Thomas Catron and Ted Turner, Maxwell was one of the largest private landowners in United States history. In 1959, he was inducted into the Hall of Great ...
March 13, 2024 at 7:35 PM. Mar. 13—A suspect wounded by Santa Fe police gunfire during an arrest operation Sunday afternoon in a midtown neighborhood has died from his injuries at a local ...
May 9, 1986. The De Baca County Courthouse, located on Ave. C in Fort Sumner, New Mexico within De Baca County, is a historic building built in 1930. It was designed by architects Kerr & Walsh and includes Colonial Revival and, more specifically, Georgian Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...
Two Mexican-American labor leaders and civil rights activists who worked on behalf of farm laborers across the country will be celebrated Saturday in Fort Worth. The Cesar Chavez Committee of ...
08000575 [1] Added to NRHP. July 2, 2008. The Fort Sumner Cemetery Wall and Entry, at 17th and Dunn Sts, 1 mile north of intersection of 17th and U.S. 60 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, was a Works Progress Administration project in 1938 and 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.