Fort Stanton

Fort Stanton, located by the Bonito River at an elevation of over 6,000 feet, was built by the Army in the 1850s to protect settlers from local Indian tribes. An Army wife described the fort as “a beautiful post, with ...

Pat Garrett Murder Site

Pat Garrett, murdered on February 29, 1908, is well-known in Old West lore for his single-minded pursuit of William Bonney, known as Billy the Kid.

Garrett was born on June 5, 1850 in Chambers County, Alabama, and raised on his family’s ...

Goddard Hall

If you are on the New Mexico State University campus after dark and hear an unfamiliar noise, it may be the ghost of the namesake of Goddard Hall, former Engineering Dean Ralph Willis Goddard. The building sits on the main ...

Branson Hall Library

During a meeting in the summer of 1950, the Board of Regents of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (later New Mexico State University) approved the construction of Branson Hall, which would become the new home for the ...

Underground Missoula-Hammond Block

In Missoula, Montana, a local, urban archaeological survey is being conducted to see what evidence remains of the puzzling historic underground landscape. This study of Missoula’s subterranean archaeological features includes an analysis and inventory of steam tunnels, sidewalk vaults (spaces ...

Underground Missoula-Crystal Barber Shop

The American West’s urban undergrounds are laced with mystique and lore. Well-known historic undergrounds exist in cities such as Portland, Pendleton, Seattle, Boise, and Butte. Tales exist of secret underground passages to houses of prostitution, Chinese opium dens, and Prohibition-era ...

Anna Gonzalez

Anna Rosa Gonzalez 1832-1893

Little information about Anna Rosa Gonzalez has lasted through the century since her death, and most of it is inscribed on her marble grave marker. She was born on November 22nd, 1832. She married William McC. Jordan ...

Celestine Hernandez

Celestine Bonifay Hernandez 1835-1857

The records hold little information about Celestine Bonifay Hernandez. She was born in 1835, the second of five children. Her parents were Faruco, from Florida, and Ysabel, from Lousiana. On April 27th, 1854, at the ...

Frank Sanchez

Frank Sanchez 1835-1877

Little is known of Frank Sanchez, even though he left behind one of the most distinctive markers in the cemetery. Sanchez was born in 1835 in San Antonio, Texas, and died in 1877 in Warrington, Florida. A ...

Gila Gonzalez

Gila Bonifay Gonzalez 1816-1881

Gila Bonifay Gonzalez was born in Florida in 1816. She married Pedro Gonzalez, a local tax collector, on November 3rd, 1833, at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Pensacola, FL. The census noted her occupation as ôkeeping ...