Museum on Dripping Springs Road depicts the history of New Mexico’s farming community for the last 3000 years. Displays, demonstrations, animals and equipment make this 47-acre interactive museum one of the state’s most exciting. New Mexico’s Spanish colonists passed through the Mesilla Valley over 400 years ago. El Camino Real was established by the Spaniards and remained the link between New Mexico’s provincial capital of Santa Fe and Mexico’s northern trade center of Chihuahua City through periods of Spanish and Mexican rule. In 1830, Apache warriors attacked a group of travelers on El Camino Real
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and in 1849, the crosses that marked their graves became the basis of the community’s name, Las Cruces. Throughout the 1800’s settlers, adventurers and entrepreneurs crossed El Camino Real, on the Butterfield Trail, enroute to Arizona and California. Mining attracted a few
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settlers to the Las Cruces area in the
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late 1800’s, but it was the arrival of
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