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The Plaza Hotel, built in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904. Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. (The land had previously been granted to Luis Mara Cabeza de Baca, whose family later received a settlement.) The town was laid ...
Interstate 40 I-40 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by NMDOT Length 373.530 mi (601.138 km) Existed 1957 –present NHS Entire route Major junctions West end I-40 at the Arizona state line Major intersections US 491 in Gallup I-25 / US 85 in Albuquerque US 285 near Clines Corners US 54 / US 84 in Santa Rosa US 54 in Tucumcari East end I-40 at the Texas state line Location ...
I-25 begins at I-10's exit 144 in Las Cruces (elevation 4,000 feet (1,200 m)), [3] just south of the New Mexico State University (NMSU) campus. I-25 is concurrent with US 85 at this point, and carries US 85 concurrently for the remainder of its run in New Mexico, save for a 4-mile (6.4 km) through Las Vegas where unsigned US 85 follows Interstate 25 Business (I-25 Bus., Business Loop 15 ...
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [ 1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps and volcanic domes dot the caldera floor landscape. [ 4]
Wagon Mound is a village in Mora County, New Mexico, United States. It is named after and located at the foot of a butte called Wagon Mound, which was a landmark for covered wagon trains and traders going up and down the Santa Fe Trail and is now Wagon Mound National Historic Landmark. It was previously an isolated ranch that housed four ...
Montezuma is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. It is located approximately five miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas . The town was best known for many years for its natural hot springs, [ 2] and was in fact called "Los Ojos Calientes". [ 3] or "Las Vegas Hot Springs" until the late 19th century.
State Road 124 ( NM 124) is a 25.523-mile-long (41.075 km) state highway in the US state of New Mexico. NM 124's western terminus is at NM 117 southeast of Grants, and the eastern terminus is at Interstate 40 (I-40) east of Laguna. NM 124 follows the routing of the former Historic U.S. Route 66.
Added to NRHP. March 19, 1987. The Acequia Madre, in Las Vegas, New Mexico, is a historic acequia which was built at the time of Las Vegas' settlement in 1835–36. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] It runs from the Gallinas River to the approximate intersection of S. Pacific and U.S. Route 85 in Las Vegas.