Get Into the Mix in Santa Fe: ; Centuries-Old New Mexico City Offers the Best of Many Worlds
Sunday Gazette-Mail › June 28, 2010
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SANTA FE, N.M. - Last September, Santa Fe kicked off its yearlong celebration its 400th anniversary, making the city the oldest among the nation's state capitals.
The city's story began long before 1609, however. Pueblo Indian villages dotted northern New Mexico as early as the 11th century, and the Spanish began exploring the area about 1515, when Francisco Coronado came in search of gold. He found none, but that didn't stop him from claiming the land for Spain.See the full content of this document
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Get Into the Mix in Santa Fe: ; Centuries-Old New Mexico City Offers the Best of Many Worlds
White settlers began pouring down the Santa Fe Trail in the mid- 1800s, and in 1848, the United States gained control of the New Mexico Territory from Mexico. New Mexico was a territory until 1912, when it became the 47th state.
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