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History · Glorieta

Glorieta’s history is mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Glorieta. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

2old photos & papers
1historic places
1need a date
From Glorieta’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Glorieta’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Glorieta’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story

How Glorieta came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Glorieta.

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The area was the site of two battles in New Mexico history, the Capture of Santa Fe and the Battle of Glorieta Pass. The community was founded in 1879 with the arrival of the New Mexico and Southern Pacific Railroad, with a post office established in 1880.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Glorieta, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1930s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Trees at Glorieta, New Mexico Georgia O’Keeffe
Retake this viewTrees at Glorieta, New Mexico Georgia O’Keeffe, 1929

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Glorieta

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
0
each building in a district counts
first listed
2012
Santa Fe Trail-Apache Canyon Bridge Site
in New Mexico
#73
by listings
All 1 listings

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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From Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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