Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel

Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel is a New Mexico historical marker in Rio Arriba County.

US 84 -- Abiquiu vicinity -- east of Abiquiu

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Only ruins remain of the chapel of Santa Rosa de Lima, licensed in 1737. The village associated with the chapel – La Plaza de Santa Rosa de Lima de Abiquiú –was repeatedly attacked by some Indian groups and temporarily abandoned until the area was re-settled in the 1750s. Population shifts in the Chama valley during the following century resulted in abandonment of the plaza by 1847. The chapel, however, remained in use until the early 1900s.

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Historical maps covering this location

1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1882 · 69. Parts Of Southern Colorado And Northern New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1918 · Abiquiu, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1953 · Abiquiu, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1953, covering the location of Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1953, covering this location. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Official Scenic Historic Markers program, New Mexico Historic Preservation Division, Department of Cultural AffairsMarker texts come from the Division’s published marker spreadsheet, reproduced with the Division’s written permission. Where that spreadsheet records a coordinate, the pin is the Division’s own; where it records only a highway and mile marker, an address, a junction or a named place, or where its coordinate contradicts its own highway, mile and county, the pin is ours, resolved on public road and place data and marked approximate.

Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel

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