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2. Land grants in New Mexico and Colorado - Wikipedia

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   Atrisco Land Grant - (granted 1692, confirmed 1894, original size 82,729 acres (334.79 km 2) [33] The Atrisco Land Grant dates from 1692 when the Spanish government gave land to Fernando Duran y Chavez for his military service during the reconquest of New Mexico. The name of the grant derives from a Nahuatl word. The town of Atrisco was on the ...

3. Baca land grants - Wikipedia

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   The land in the grant was later measured to be 431,654 acres (174,684 ha). As frequently was the case, the Las Vegas Grandes grant conflicted with the Town of Las Vegas Land Grant. The U.S. government, after its conquest of New Mexico in 1846, added to the confusion by recognizing both grants as legitimate.

4. Casa Colorada, New Mexico - Wikipedia

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   Whereas it may have been in ruins in 1760, by 1841 it was a small community. The area is a well known Land Grant. The modern settlement for the town of Casa Colorada was born of a petition for a community grant in 1823. The grant may not have been confirmed at that time but the town continued in existence (Bowden 1969:II, 205).

5. Santa Fe Ring - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. government would later list 282 Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico and Colorado totaling in area 34,653,346 acres (14,023,712 ha) [2] (54,146 square miles), an area larger than the country of England and about the same size as the state of New York. However, the U.S. required that all land grants be "confirmed" (determined ...

6. Bosque Farms, New Mexico - Wikipedia

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   What is known as Bosque Farms today was part of a Spanish land grant dating from 1716, originally known as Bosque del Pino (Forest Pines), or Los Pinos.. The land changed hands numerous times before being purchased during the Great Depression by the New Mexico Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, which in turn sold it to the federal Resettlement Administration in 1935.

7. National Register of Historic Places listings in New Mexico

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   This is a list of properties and districts in New Mexico that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,100 listings. There are more than 1,100 listings. Of these, 46 are National Historic Landmarks .