Settlements, Santa Fe County, New Mexico...part of Genealogy Trails

Santa Fe County, New Mexico Genealogy Trails
From The New Mexico Bureau of Immigration, 1906 [Abstracted and submitted by: Candi H. -2008]

Settlements in 1906

Cerrillos is the principal settlement of southern Santa Fe County.
It has a smelter, at present idle, stone quarries, a fine public school building, church, business houses, and in its vicinity are a number of mining properties.

Cowsprings is a settlement on Galisteo Creek, with postoffice and store.

Galisteo is a settlement of farmers and stockmen in the southern part of the county, with church, school house, postoffice and stores.
It is on the Galisteo River and two and a half miles from Kennedy at the junction of the Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Central Railways.
It is the headquarters for the Eaton Land Grant.

Glorieta is on the Santa Fe System and is beautifully located on Glorieta Pass at an altitude of 7,600 feet. Near by a sanguinary battle was fought in the Civil war. Upon the site of the battlefield still stand the ruins of an old road-house of considerable importance in the days of the Santa Fe Trail. Here is also a well sunk by the government through the solid rock at an expense of $4,000. Near Glorieta are iron, copper and other mines and coal deposits. It was formerly an important shipping point for timber, and today is the most convenient point from which to reach the upper Pecos country
and the Pecos Forest Reserve.

Golden is a mining camp on the northern slope of the San Pedro Mountains. It has a church, school house, postoffice and stores.
Round about it are gold placer fields and gold mines with mills.

A few miles south of Golden is the mining camp of San Pedro, where the mines and works of the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Company are located.
It has a large smelter and in the vicinity are a number of important mining properties.
A public school, church, postoffice and stores indicate that San Pedro is a trading center.

Lamy is the junction point of the Santa Fe branch with the main line of the Santa Fe System.
It has a roundhouse, a depot hotel, a postoffice, store, a church and a public school.
It has a sandstone quarry, charcoal and lime ovens.
It is also the headquarters of the Onderdonk Livestock Ranch, at present under lease.

Madrid is an abandoned coal camp with several score of frame company houses, school house and church.
It is the terminus of the Santa Fe branch line from Waldo.

The other settlements of Santa Fe County are all north of the Santa Fe Railway line.
Near Santa Fe are the agricultural settlements of Agua Fria, Cieneguilla, Cienega and Tesuque, all with orchards, churches, school houses and stores. Near Tesuque is the Indian pueblo of Tesuque, of much interest to tourists and antiquarians.
In the Tesuque Valley are the rural settlements of Cuyamungue and Jacona.

Santa Cruz is the most important place of northern Santa Fe County. It has a quaint old church that antedates the mission churches of California, a flour mill, a public school house, a post-office and a number of stores, and is surrounded by some of the finest orchards and agricultural lands in Santa Fe County, deriving their water supply both from the Rio Grande and the Santa Cruz Rivers.It is two miles from the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad at Espanola.

Chimayo is another pretty settlement in the Santa Cruz Valley at the foot of the Cobra Negra Peak. It has beautiful orchards, a church, a school house, a postoffice and stores

Hobart is an agricultural settlement in the Rio Grande Valley and on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Here are the Round Top Mountain Fruit and Truck Farm and the Black Mesa, an Indian battleground if some fame. Here is also the head of the ditch built by the government to carry the waters of the Rio Grande to the Pueblo village of San Ildefonso. Hobart has a flour mill, a postoffice and a store.

San Ildefonso is the largest Indian pueblo in Santa Fe County and, although it is situated in the Pojoaque Valley near the confluence
of the Pojoaque with the Rio Grande, yet its water for irrigation purposes is, to a great extent, derived from the Rio Grande.
San Ildefonso has an interesting mission church, a school, stores and a postoffice. Many nice fruit farms are situated in the vicinity.
It is in the southern extremity of the fertile Espanola Valley.

Nambe and Pojoaque are small but pretty and quaint Pueblo Indian settlements, although the latter has been practically abandoned
by the Indians, most of whom have intermarried with surrounding settlers.
Near Nambe are the most beautiful falls in the county, which are about to be utilized to furnish power for an electric plant to he
erected by Santa Fe capital.

Pojoaque