New Mexico Home Improvement Contractors
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New Mexico information:
- The official website of the State of New Mexico is www.NewMexico.gov.
- During the height of the so-called lawless era of the late 1800' when Lew Wallace served as territorial Governor, he wrote the popular historical novel Ben-Hur. First published in 1880, it was made into a movie in 1959 starring Charleton Heston.
- Native Americans have been living in New Mexico for some twenty thousand years. The Pueblo, Apache, Comanche, Navajo, and Ute peoples were in the New Mexico region when Spanish settlers arrived in the 1600s.
- New Mexico's State Constitution officially states that New Mexico is a bilingual State, and 1 out of 3 families in New Mexico speak Spanish at home.
- The province that was once Spanish New Mexico included all of present day New Mexico, most of Colorado and Arizona, and slices of Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. The Original American Territory of New Mexico that congress created in 1850 included all of New Mexico and Arizona plus parts of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.
- Hatch is known as the "Green Chile capital of the world".
- New Mexico is one of the four corner states. Bordering at the same point with Colorado, Utah and Arizona.
- Cimarron was once known as the "Cowboy capital of the world". "Everything is quiet in Cimarron. Nobody has been killed in 3 days."
- The leaves of the Yucca, New Mexico's state flower, can be used to make rope, baskets and sandals.
- Taos Pueblo is located 2 miles north of the city of Taos. It is one of the oldest continuously occupied communities in the United States. People still live in some of its 900 year old buildings.
New Mexico news:
- New Mexico thoroughbred aims for record Saturday
AP The New Mexico thoroughbred mare is entered in a 6-furlong allowance
race Saturday at Zia Park, bidding for what would be a North American
record 17th ... - We Found Fall Color in the New Mexico High Country - Take a Train ...
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad is a vintage steam locomotive driven
excursion train leaving either from Antonito, Colorado or Chama, New
Mexico. ... - New Mexico Secretary of State Misinformation Robs the Green and ...
The New Mexico Green Party has been continuously ballot-qualified since
1992, and the New Mexico Libertarian Party has been continuously
ballot-qualified ... - New Mexico thoroughbred aims for record
The New Mexico thoroughbred mare is entered in a 6-furlong allowance race
Saturday at Zia Park, bidding for what would be a North American record
17th ... - Southern New Mexico Businesses Prepare For New Area Code Deadline
LAS CRUCES, NM -- Most cell phone users who need to switch over to the 575
area code in Southern New Mexico have. But for businesses, there is some
more ...
New Mexico covers 33 Counties:
Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Union, Valencia
New Mexico covers 1 area code:
505