Valencia’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Valencia. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusValencia is an unincorporated community in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau first defined the community as a census-designated place (CDP) prior to the 2020 census. The community is in eastern Santa Fe County, at the southern end of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and is bordered to the east by Glorieta. Interstate 25 passes through Valencia, with access from Exit 297. I-25 leads northwest (southbound) 17 miles (27 km) to Santa Fe and east (northbound) 49 miles (79 km) to Las Vegas, New Mexico. The highway crosses Glorieta Pass at the eastern border of the CDP.
Half of its homes were built before 1994.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Valencia yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Valencia’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Valencia’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewDon Simon Aragon House: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Valencia
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Valencia, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Valencia is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Valencia has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Glorieta Pass Battlefield in Valencia, 1.3 miles away.
Valencia and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Don Simon Aragon House and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.