Belen

by Baldwin G. Burr

Book Overview

In 1740, a group of Hispanic families, seeking new cultivatable land, received a grant of more than 200,000 acres from the governor of Spanish New Mexico. In 1793, a church was built in the Belen Old Town Plaza under the direction of Franciscan priests. An agricultural community was formed around several plazas, and residents prospered through barter and subsistence farming. In the 1850s and 1860s, German immigrants joined Hispanic merchants to form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467130532
• ISBN13: 9781467130530
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"