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87The Oldest House in America
After visiting San Miguel Church on Old Santa Fe Trail in the historic district of Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to follow the sign by the church and walk down the street to check out what the sign claimed to be the “Oldest House in the USA”....
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85Fray Marcos de Niza and His Monument
March 26, 2009 Driving south on Duquesne Rd in the Santa Cruz County sector of the Coronado National Forest in Southern Arizona one comes upon a broad, grassy plain which looks more like it belongs in the grasslands of the Great Plains rather than...
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76Lady in Blue
Every place has its myths and stories from the past. We are told that myths always start with some grain of factual truth and just evolve over time. In some cases the facts and the myth don't diverge that much and it becomes relatively easy to...
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80American History You Never Knew - New Spain: The First and the Last
In the 2010s, the history of New Spain, Mexico, and the United States is still unfolding. Additional information garnered regularly from newly discovered historical and genealogical records, the oral histories within families, and the unsealing of...
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83Hugo O'Conor - Founder of Tucson
Visitors to the city of Tucson, Arizona in America's Southwest are often surprised to learn that this city just north of the Mexican border was founded by an Dublin born Irishman named Hugo O'Connor. Read the amazing story of how this Irishman came to be a general in the Spanish army and founded a city in 1775 in what was known as the Spanish colony of New Spain.
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78Colonial Mexico
Mexico is named for the Aztec god of war. The Aztecs were an aggressive, imperialist people, who had come from somewhere in the north to conquer Mexico about two hundred years before the Spanish came and conquered them. As the Aztecs conquered...
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76Galveston Tx. Vacation ~ Galveston History ~ Linocut of Dazzling White Sacred Heart Church
Learn why this Gulf of Mexico town got its name going back to the time of the Revolutionary War. Beautiful buildings, rich history (even Civil War bunkers), and laid back lifestyle lures tourists there today.
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76Cry of Dolores Grito de Dolores Mexican Holiday September 15
What the heck is the Cry of Dolores? US schools teach little about the history and culture of our closest neighbor. Happy Independence Day Mexico!
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72The Baja peninsula and its most attractive cities
The Baja California peninsular, in English the Lower California peninsula is a peninsula in western Mexico. It extends some 775 miles from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja...
61Celebrating El Día de los Muertos
November 1st and 2nd are celebrated in Mexico as the Day of the Dead or El D
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