3 comments

• Comment Link Saturday, 01 August 2015 18:32 posted by Mike Lord

  This is great stuff, William. Many thanks for keeping the history alive.
• Comment Link Friday, 31 July 2015 22:48 posted by Michael Miller

  Thanks William,
  Excellent research. Job well done Hilario and William.
• Comment Link Thursday, 30 July 2015 21:54 posted by William Mee

  So here is a "Unofficial Timeline" of Agua Fria history:
  3,000-3,500 BCE Earliest pit houses along Santa Fe River
  500-800 Quemado Pueblo burned
  800-1100 Second distinct civilization found at Pindi Pueblo (earlier than Santa Fe)
  1100-1350 Third distinct civilization found at Pindi Pueblo
  1450 Last Native American inhabitation of area
  Pre-1600 El Camino Real del Tierra Adentro based on Native American trails
  Place of Settlement date: 1640; possibly 1603---earlier than Santa Fe
  1693 Land grants given:
  - Roque Madrid west of San Isidro Crossing;
  - Cristobal Nieto on east of him
  - Andres Montoya (from Cieneguilla) on west
  1650-1700 Stop on Camino Real not a Paraje (resting place); but a place to wash up in the springs before dramatic entry to Villa de Santa Fe
  1700’s Known as Pueblo Quemado and Ojito Fresco; later as Ranchitos de los Romeros and Ranchitos de los Lopez; then Placita de los Romeros/Lopez
  1776 Fray Dominguez report
  1822 Agua Fria Village cited in Mexican report
  1835 San Isidro Mission (later Church) land donated and construction started
  1837 Gov. Albinio Perez proposed taxes and was beheaded; head kicked thru Village to Santo Domingo as a way to show popular support of revolt.
  1846 Lt. James W. Abert mentions Agua Fria in dispatches (first “American” reference).
  1861 Men in village volunteer for Union Army
  1862 Company of cavalry raised under Captain Charles Probst see action in Glorieta
  1880 Santa Fe Improvement Company dams river
  1881 Twelve men ride to reservoirs; six with guns to release water
  1894 Reservoir stops acequias illegally; Governor Thornton petitioned (he is also a member of the Santa Fe Ring behind the action)
  1896 Legislature and courts petitioned.
  1933 Los Pastores recorded by WPA unemployed artists/sent to National Archives
  1935 Celso Gallegos’ santos featured at Chicago Museum of Modern Art
  1945 Final reservoir built illegally--- acequias dry; effluent water released in place
  1946 Los Pastores featured in New Mexican
  1962 Last presentation of Los Pastores when Freddy Gallegos dies
  1970 Clean Air & Water Act prohibits release of effluent water
  1971 Adjudication lawsuit filed – now longest running litigation in U.S.
  1985 Southwest Area Task Force (SWAT) started
  1993 Agua Fria Village Association (AFVA) started
  1994 4th Incorporation attempt (1960, 1970, 1980)
  1996 THC status granted by BCC
  1999 First River Blessing rekindled.
  2000 Las Posadas rekindled.
  2010 Melinda Romero-Pike named Official Historian by BCC; 175th anniversary of church
  2015 375th anniversary of Agua Fria Village.