Village of Questa

Village of Questa is a New Mexico historical marker in Taos County.

NM Highway 522 -- Questa · location approximate

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(SIDE 1) This village was founded and abandoned several times between 1815 and the mid 1840s. The original name of the village was San Antonio del Rió Colorado, dedicated to Saint Anthony, the patron saint associated with the return of lost articles and missing persons. In 1883, its name was changed to Questa. The land was also originally home to Mouache and Capote bands of Ute Indians and was used as a hunting ground for many other nomadic tribes. (SIDE 2) Esta villa fué fundada y abandonada varias veces entre los años 1815 y mediados de 1840. Dedicada a San Antonio, el Santo patrón que devuelve las cosas y personas perdidas, el nombre original de la villa fué San Antonio del Rio Colorado. En 1883, su nombre fué cambiado a Questa. La tierra fué tambien originalmente el hogar de las bandas Mouache y Capote, de la tribu nativo Americana Ute, y fué usada como territorio de caza por muchas otras tríbus nómadas.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1876 · Territory of New Mexico (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1876 · Map of Exploration and Surveys in New Mexico and Utah. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1882 · 69. Parts Of Southern Colorado And Northern New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1882 · Territory Of New Mexico. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1963 · Questa, New Mexico (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Territory of New Mexico, 1876, covering the location of Village of Questa, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Territory of New Mexico, 1876, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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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.

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