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The Taos Plaza is the historic center of the town of Taos. Once a Spanish fortified walled plaza with houses and businesses, it now has a park with shady trees, park benches, and a gazebo surrounded by retail businesses [1] [2] [3] made of adobe. [4]
Map of Santa Fe Trail and El Camino Real Trail An 1883 photograph of the Taos Plaza taken from the southeast corner. [2] E. Irving Couse Studio, Taos. 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
Taos (/ t aʊ s /) 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 ...
Entrances to the center of the plaza were limited. It is believed that La Loma was settled between 1795 when most Spanish settlers left the protection of the fortified Taos Pueblo to settle in land that is now the town of Taos and before 1846 when New Mexico became a United States provisional government and fortified settlements were less ...
Location of Taos County in New Mexico. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Taos County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Taos County, New Mexico, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Ranchos de Taos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Taos County, New Mexico United States. The population was 2,390 at the time of the 2000 census . The historic district is the Ranchos de Taos Plaza , which includes the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church .
The plaza is the original location of the village of Ranchos de Taos, built in the late 1770s. [6] In 1776, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez wrote that "the settlement consists of scattered ranchos, and their owners are the citizens who live in the pueblo." [4] At that time, Ranchos de Taos was the largest Spanish settlement in the Taos Valley. [7]
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish or Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe is a historic church adjacent to the Taos Plaza at 205 Don Fernando Street in downtown Taos, New Mexico.