Welcome to our Las Vegas Tour!! If you look over there...you'll see the Bellagi....Wait a minute! Hey Rosy, where is the Bellagio, the Las Vegas Strip..the Neon?!?!?!
Well Sunny, this isn't THAT Las Vegas, the one in Nevada. This is the "other" Las Vegas....Las Vegas, NEW MEXICO!
The town was known initially as Los Delores de Las Vegas Grandes
or Our Lady of Sorrows on the Great Meadows and was settled as early as the 1600s.
The town of Las Vegas was officially established in 1835 by a group of settlers who received a grant from the Mexican government.
The town is laid out in traditional Spanish Colonial Style. There is a central plaza, surrounded by buildings. These buildings would help protect the people in case of an enemy attack.
Yep, buildings everywhere Rosy...I know I feel safe, plus Daddy is close..
Oh Sunny, this was in the ancient times...even BEFORE Daddy was born!
Now...where was I...
In 1846, Stephen W. Kearny delivered a speech claiming New Mexico for the United States. The Pueblo people, along with Hispanos, challenged this claim a year later in the Battle of Las Vegas. In the end though, in 1912, New Mexico became the 47th of the United States.
Mama says not to get her started on this....so we won't.
Thank you for joining us for some history of Las Vegas, NV.
Join us Thursday to hear about the Las Vegas Railroad and some of the
people it attracted!
We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the
Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!
Ooh this is a super interesting post. We never knew there was another Las Vegas. Gail says she thinks she would prefer this to the more famous one!
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Nobby.
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteI, like Gail, appreciate learning of this doppleganger city - and think it much more to my liking! Hugs and wags, YAM-aunty xxx
ooohhhhhh wow!!! we once where in a munich what had no october feast because it was a tiny village... and now we read about another las vegas.... wow... but anyway... vivaaa las vegas... now we have a song for this day...
ReplyDeleteWe love those statues, they made us laugh, but we know they are supposed to be serious. It is much different than the bright lights, big city Vegas.
ReplyDeletethose people from the past statues sure are thin! BOL BOL... the two of you look so sweet sitting there for your photos... I don't remember ever hearing any history about New Mexico, in school I mean.
ReplyDeleteWell you teased me for sure. I know how much your peeps love LV, Nevada. I had no idea there was a LV, NM. The statues were very pretty in spite of their meaning. You know who loved the first one with the pop of red
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What wonderful photos and I love the statues!
ReplyDeleteHow fun and I didn't know there was a Las Vegas in New Mexico. I'd rather go to the one in New Mexico. My kind of place.
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. Scritches all around and my best to your peeps. ♥
That was a very informative travelogue from your girls today. We can't wait to learn more about the area.
ReplyDeleteThat was pretty cool girls! We didn't know there was another Las Vegas!
ReplyDeleteWe also did not know there was a :as Vegas. NM. Thanks for the tour and the history lesson. Those statues remind us of some of Mom's Christmas statue decorations.
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Thanks for the tour. I wonder how many people with bad travel agents end up vacationing there for a week.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyyy, doesn't anybody feed those statues? They are so skinny!"
ReplyDeleteWe're all joining the crowd here who knew nothing about Las Vegas, NM or how NM got to be a state. Thanks for the history lesson, girls!
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