Crownpoint’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Crownpoint. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Crownpoint was founded in 1912 by Samuel F. Stacher as an Indian agency to serve the Navajo people in the Pueblo Bonito Agency of northwestern New Mexico. A school house, agency office and power house were built to accommodate future planned establishments.
Chief Becenti, a local Navajo headman, is one of the first documented leaders of the area. He resided north of Crownpoint, where later in the 1930s a small community would be named after him, called Becenti Lake.
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Start Crownpoint’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Crownpoint’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewCrownpoint Hospital, Lombardy Str…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Crownpoint
See all 6 →Crownpoint, decade by decade
2000
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Crownpoint Hospital, Lombardy Street and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.