With the coronavirus, all bets are off. Baca listened. He studied historic preservation at Columbia University and then spent 30 years working for the state of New Mexico to revitalize downtowns across the state.
He transformed the second floor of Bridge St. The picturesque streets of Las Vegas would draw enough tourists to sustain the business, he felt certain. And he wanted to improve the quality of life for locals. Generations of families came to watch the animated Day of the Dead movie together. Buildings that underwent million-dollar renovations in recent years to attract tourists were closed for weeks during the COVID shutdown; downtown restaurants that lived on razor-thin margins saw their customers disappear.
And businesses that reopened in June saw little traffic. With only 16 confirmed cases of the virus and no reported deaths to date, Las Vegas population 13, and surrounding San Miguel County have dodged the most devastating health impacts of the pandemic. But they have not been spared its economic devastation. Census Bureau. Las Vegas native Harlan Lyster — former bank robber, now unemployed bulldozer operator — described how he was getting by while standing on the sidewalk outside a pharmacy, waiting for a prescription to be filled.
History has buffeted Las Vegas many times over the centuries, favoring one population over another, invading it and bedeviling it. Located near the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, on a fertile plain watered by the Gallinas River, the area saw its first permanent settlement in , built by Mexican colonists. Without exception, there was no town which harbored a more disreputable gang of desperadoes, and outlaws than did Las Vegas — Ralph Emerson Twitchell, historian.
Las Vegas was established by a Mexican land grant in Originally called Nuestra Senora de Los Dolores de Las Vegas Grandes our Lady of Sorrows of the Great Meadows by settlers whose roots in the area went back to the early s, in the beginning, the settlement doubled as a fort, designed to be battened down for attacks by the Apache Indians.
One-story adobe houses circled a large, central plaza where stock could be driven to safety. After more than years, this ancient Mother Ditch still winds behind the buildings on the Plaza and waters the gardens of the western portion of the town. When he arrived, he found a thriving community of 1, Spanish settlers. Training several very large cannons directly on the Plaza, the men of Las Vegas quickly surrendered.
By that time, the Santa Fe Trail was being traveled frequently, allowing entrepreneurs to send their wares westward while enterprising Las Vegans traded eastward.
For the travelers along this rustic path, Las Vegas was a welcome sight, as it was the first town of any size after miles of travel from Kansas. These many traders, along with other pioneers and prospectors, demanded whiskey and women, for which the town readily complied.
The army remained in Las Vegas until moving to Fort Union, about 20 miles north of the city, in Built to protect the Santa Fe Trail from Indian raids, the new fort further encouraged the growth and development of Las Vegas, as the army bought supplies for the several hundred soldiers and civilians stationed at the fort. The Santa Fe Trail offered jobs and the many town merchants prospered during this time, growing to over 1, people by During the next two decades, its population quadrupled as it established itself as a major trade center.
But the era was also riddled with disagreements between the Spanish, the new Anglo emigrants, and the local Apache.
Economic parternships were formed between the Mexican government officials and the American merchants so wagons full of goods could be traded in "los estados" and American goods could be sold to Nuevo Mexicanos.
When the caravans arrived in the Las Vegas plaza, Church bells rang and carts of the townspeople were set up in the plaza to supply the traders with food, wood, and other goods. It was a sort of farmer's market.
He told the inhabitants from atop one of the adobe houses in the plaza that he did not come as a conqueror or expect them to take up arms against their own people, but that whoever took up arms against him, would be hung.
After the war, stores began to be built where houses had stood. They would become political leaders of the area. Contents 1. Las Vegas was established in after a group of settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government. The town was laid out in the traditional Spanish Colonial style, with a central plaza surrounded by buildings which could serve as fortifications in case of attack. Las Vegas soon prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail.
When the railroad arrived in it set up shop one mile east of the Plaza, creating a separate, rival New Town as in Albuquerque. During the railroad era Las Vegas boomed, quickly becoming one of the largest cities in the American southwest.
Although the two towns have been combined, two separate school districts remain. Donnelly Library, established in It supports the teaching, research and community activities of New Mexico Highlands University. It acquires, organizes, preserves and provides access to pertinent information and scholarly materials for curricular needs, intellectual pursuits and personal enrichment of its clientele.
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