Historic Sites
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Albuquerque Museum Of Art And History Albuquerque, New Mexico
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An exhibition of local history depicts four hundred years of the history of Albuquerque... |
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Artesia Historical Museum & Arts Center Artesia, New Mexico
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The Moore-Ward house was built soon after the town of Artesia was founded, in 1904. The... |
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Billy The Kid Museum Fort Sumner, New Mexico
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Other displays include the military cavalry sword of John Chisum, more than 150 firearms... |
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Blumenschein Home & Museum Taos, New Mexico
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In the early autumn of 1898, a fortuitous accident resulted in Taos becoming a great... |
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Bosque Redondo Memorial Fort Sumner, New Mexico
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The center of a million-acre reservation known as the Bosque Redondo, this site... |
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City Of Las Vegas Museum Las Vegas, New Mexico
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The Museum is housed in a 1940 Works Progress Administration funded building. Originally... |
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Columbus Historical Society & Railroad Depot Museum Columbus, New Mexico
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The museum has a large collection of photos of scenes taken both in Columbus and... |
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Coronado State Monument Bernalillo, New Mexico
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The pueblo of Kuaua was occupied from 1300 AD and abandoned near the end of the 16th... |
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Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Chama, New Mexico
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The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad was originally constructed in 1880 as part of... |
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El Camino Real Heritage Center Magdalena, New Mexico
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The El Camino Heritage Center tells the story of more than three centuries of trade and... |
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Farmington Museum Farmington, New Mexico
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The Three Waters Trading Post features a walk-through replica of a 1930s trading post... |
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Fray Angélico Chávez History Library Santa Fe, New Mexico
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The Fray Angélico Chávez History Library is the institutional successor of New Mexico's... |
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Santa Fe, New Mexico
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One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-... |
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Harwood Museum Of Art Taos, New Mexico
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Founded in 1923 and operated by the University of New Mexico since 1936, the Harwood is... |
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Hubbard Museum Of The American West Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico
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The mission of the Hubbard Museum of the American West is to collect, preserve and... |
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Jemez State Monument Heritage Area Jemez Springs, New Mexico
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The village of Giusewa was built in the narrow San Diego Canyon by the ancestors of the... |
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Lincoln State Monument Lincoln, New Mexico
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In this quiet one-street community visitors can walk in the footsteps of Sheriff Pat... |
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Los Alamos Historical Museum Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Located at the site of the Manhattan Project laboratory, this museum provides exhibits on... |
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Millicent Rogers Museum Taos, New Mexico
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The Millicent Rogers Museum's setting, with views of the many-hued Sangre de Cristo... |
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National Atomic Museum Albuquerque, New Mexico
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The Museum is America's resource for nuclear history and science. It presents exhibits... |
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New Mexico History Museum Santa Fe, New Mexico
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The New Mexico History Museum began as the development of a storage facility for... |
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Palace Of The Governors Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Originally serving as Spain's seat of government in the present day American Southwest... |
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Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum And Pioneer Village Cloudcroft, New Mexico
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Visit the Sacramento Mountains Museum & Pioneer Village and learn the story of past... |
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Taos Art Museum & Fenchin House Taos, New Mexico
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Paintings by the founders of the Taos Society of Artists: Joseph H. Sharp, Bert G.... |
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Tularosa Basin Historical Society Alamogordo, New Mexico
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The Tularosa Basin Historical Society and Museum has gathered artifacts and stories of... |
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Ufo Museum & Research Center Roswell, New Mexico
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The mission of the museum is the education of the general public to all aspects of the... |
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Western Heritage Museum And Lea County Cowboy Hall Of Fame Hobbs, New Mexico
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Containing everything from an animatronic cowboy who answers questions to a restored... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
