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September 6, 2016. Santa Fe National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Santa Fe, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It encompasses 84.3 acres (34.1 ha), and as of 2021, had 68,000 interments. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it is one of two national cemeteries in New Mexico (the other ...
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]
Great Osage Trail. 1980 U.S. Geological Survey Topographical map of a portion of Independence Missouri with a blurry red line superimposed, showing the route of the ancient "Great Osage Trail" which after 1825 was known as the first section of the Santa Fe Trail, destination New Mexico and Mexico. The Great Osage Trail, also known as the Osage ...
May 23, 1963 [3] Arrow Rock Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the village of Arrow Rock, Missouri and the adjacent Arrow Rock State Historic Site. The Arrow Rock area was where the historic Santa Fe Trail crossed the Missouri River, and was thus a key stopping point during the settlement of the American ...
Sep. 19—About 68,000 people are buried at Santa Fe National Cemetery — most of them veterans and some of them spouses. Their headstones tell their names, dates of birth and death, what branch ...
Oct. 30—Many people in Santa Fe walk its winding streets and look up at its adobe buildings with little knowledge of the vast history deep beneath its surface. Alysia Abbott travels the same ...
The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pioneered in 1821 by William Becknell, who departed from the Boonslick region along the Missouri River, the trail served as a vital commercial highway until 1880, when the railroad arrived in Santa Fe.
His wife, City Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth, is a sponsor of the resolution to explore moving the Soldiers' Monument to the national cemetery. Councilor Alma Castro also supports its relocation.