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The intersection of Central Avenue
and Fourth Street in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the only place
in America where U.S. Route 66 crossed itself. From its inception
in 1925, until a major realignment in 1937, Route 66 traveled
north from Santa Rosa, to Romeroville, just west of Las Vegas,
then on west to Santa Fe. From Santa Fe the road traveled south
over La Bajada, to Bernalillo and Albuquerque. From Albuquerque,
the road went further south to Los Lunas, where it turned west
to Laguna, then it resumed the east-west orientation to Grants
and Gallup. This presentation details the history of U.S. Route 66 through New Mexico, from 1925 to the present day. Baldwin G. Burr is the consulting historian at the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and Arts and has earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at the University of New Mexico where he did graduate work in the History of Photography and Museum Practices at that same institution. In addition, he holds a Master of Arts degree in Education. He is the author of Images of America: Los Lunas, and Images of America: Socorro, published by Arcadia Publishing. His book, Images of America: Belen, won the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for History. His current book project is The Historic Ranches of Northeastern New Mexico, to be published by Arcadia Publishing. |
to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County. Membership is open to anyone upon the payment of dues. For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org The Society encourages support through membership. |
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2017 Spring - Issue #42 |
Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Spring 2017 issue:
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The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County. Membership is open to anyone upon the payment of dues. For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org
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The Society encourages support through membership.
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Taos' Pioneering Historian: Helen G. Blumenschein & The Apodaca Trail |
| The Taos County Historical Society was formed in 1952 for the purpose of "... preserving the history of the Taos area...". It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Monthly meetings, the first Saturday of the month are held at Kit Carson Electric Boardroom with a featured speaker are open to the public and supported through memberships. These are also open to anyone upon payment of annual dues. For more information visit the Society's website, ww.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org |
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has successully launched "TAOS: A Topical History"  |
Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México. Corina A. Santistevan Taos County Historical Society please send a check for $40 (book+shipping) payable to Taos County Historical Society and mail to: Taos County Historical Society PO Box 2447 Taos, NM 87571 |
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