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Severino Martinez built a flourishing mercantile business trading goods from Northern New Mexico, allowing him to send [citation needed] his son Antonio José Martínez to study for the priesthood in Durango, Mexico. Antonio José was a spiritual leader in Taos from 1826 to 1867. Severino lived at the hacienda until his death in 1827.
The Picuris people previously lived in an earlier, larger village of about 3,000 people now known as Pot Creek, near Taos. They migrated to the present location along the Rio Pueblo de Taos about 1250 CE. In the 15th century it was one of the largest Tiwa pueblos, influenced by Apache and other Plains Indian cultures, as was the Taos Pueblo.
Located at 6519 San Jose Drive, it was designated the San Jose Mission National Historic Site in 1941. The historic site was administratively listed on the National Register on October 15, 1966. The church, which is still standing, was constructed in 1768. Mission San Jose was founded by Father Antonio Margil .
Taos Downtown Historic District. / 36.40667°N 105.57306°W / 36.40667; -105.57306. An 1883 photograph of the Taos Plaza taken from the southeast corner. [2] Taos Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Taos, New Mexico. [3] Taos "played a major role in the development of New Mexico, under Spanish, Mexican, and American ...
La Loma Plaza Historic District. / 36.40639°N 105.58056°W / 36.40639; -105.58056. The La Loma Plaza Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Taos, New Mexico that was listed as a National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.Initially founded in 1615, it was intermittently occupied until its formal establishment in 1795 by Nuevo México Governor Fernando Chacón to act as fortified plaza and trading outpost for the neighboring Native American Taos Pueblo (the town's namesake) and Hispano communities, including ...
When Taos Society of Artists member Victor Higgins failed to sell a painting, he hung it above the fireplace at the Harwood. Home to legends and lore, the Harwood Museum of Art is celebrating its ...
Antonio José Martínez (January 17, 1793 – July 27, 1867) was a New Mexican priest, educator, publisher, rancher, farmer, community leader, and politician. He lived through and influenced three distinct periods of New Mexico's history: the Spanish period, the Mexican period, and the American occupation and subsequent territorial period.