ESTANCIA: EVOLUTION OF AN HISPANIC SETTLEMENT Speaker is Javier Sanchez Taos County Historical Society


FIELD TRIP ON JULY 12th, 2025
Lecture on the Pit House at Pot Creek
Speaker is John Ubelaker

LECTURE FOR AUGUST 2nd, 2025
2:00 PM - Kit Carson Coop Board Room

NEW MEXICO RAILROAD

by Fred Friedman

Fred Friedman has an extensive background in New Mexico railroad history, having managed the New Mexico Railroad Bureau for almost 30 years, while dealing with a variety of rail freight, passenger & regulatory subjects. Thereafter, he was retained by several law firms as an expert witness and investigator of railroad accidents throughout the country. Fred has written and lectured on railroad topics, from both territorial and statehood periods, dealing with railroad law, labor issues, line closings and the personalities involved in those matters.

Speaking Topics

  • Native American Railroad Workers, Their History & Legacy
  • What’s Going on with Amtrak?
  • A History of New Mexico’s Railroads from Territory to Statehood

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The Taos County Historical Society is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1952 and dedicated to the recording and preserving of the irreplaceable in Taos County.
Membership is open to anyone upon payment of dues.
For additional information on the programs, activities and history of Taos visit the Society's website at www.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

The Society encourages support through membership.
   

AYER Y HOY
2025 Summer
Issue #58

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Summer 2025 issue:

•The History of the Taos County Fair
by Monica Wilder

• Josefa Carson & Ignacia Bent
by Elizabeth Cunningham

• Exploring Vaquero Culture
& La Idomia de Los Norteños de Rio Arriba
by Michael Miller

• When It All Began for TCHS
by Paul C. Figueroa

• Very Intersting History
by Dave Cordova

AYER Y HOY
2024 Winter
Issue #57

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Winter 2024 issue:

•"The Duran Chapel"
by Fr. Juan Romero

• Ceran St. Vrain
"A Gentleman of the Frontier"
by WB Francis T. Cheetham
(edited by Dave Cordova)

•Tradiciones y Historias
"Las Cabanuelas"
by Michael Miller

AYER Y HOY
2024 Summer
Issue #56

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Summer 2024 issue:

•"Carson Colcha"
A Graves Family Legacy
by Lisa Graves-Cordova

• Taos-The Sacred Valley" and
"Ranchos de Taos Mystery"
from the Book:
Living Legends of the Santa Fe Country
by Alice Bullock

•History of the Archives & Library-TCHS
by Paul C. Figueroa

•2024 TCHS HONOREES
"The Taos News"

AYER Y HOY
2023 Winter
Issue #55

Browse the Ayer Y Hoy's Winter 2023 issue:

•Don Diego de VargasExpeditions to Taos
by Helen G. Blumenschein

• Marc Simmons - 1937-2023
by Dave Cordova

• Twin Taoseños In The Civil War
by D.F. Arguello

• From "The Taos Massacres"
by John Durand

• Why History Is Important
by Dave Cordova
The Taos County Historical Society was formed in 1952 for the purpose of "... preserving the history of the Taos area...". It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Monthly meetings, the first Saturday of the month are held at Kit Carson Electric Boardroom with a featured speaker are open to the public and supported through memberships. These are also open to anyone upon payment of annual dues. For more information visit the Society's website, ww.taoscountyhistoricalsociety.org

Taos County Historical Society
has successully launched
"TAOS: A Topical History"

320 pages, 26 chapters and contributors.

Mil Gracias, A THOUSAND THANKS, does not begin to cover the many, many individuals to whom we owe a debt of gratitude. This debt is not only the living but also to those men and women who long ago began to preserve the journals and documents we now depend upon for knowledge of the past: the chroniclers who accompanied the explorers and settlers and who, dusty, tired and hungry, sat in the light of a candle to record in their journals the events of the day and the Franciscan clerics who made detailed reports of their canonical visits to the mission churches of Nuevo México.

Corina A. Santistevan
Acknowledgements in "Taos: A Topical History"

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