A history of Lamy,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Lamy from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Lamy Junction Community is an archaeological site of fourteen Coalition Era (AD 1200–1325) pueblos and other structures, located near the junction of US Highway 285 and Santa Fe County Road 233.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Lamy’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBirdseye View of, Hotel, Lamy, N.…, 1898: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lamy, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Lamy
1 place in Lamy is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Birdseye View of, Hotel, Lamy, N. M (1898) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.