Las Cruces, History of the Name
August 20, 2026
Las Cruces is traditionally linked to a massacre on the Camino Real in southern New Mexico, said to have occurred around 1712 during the governorship of Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollón. According to the long-circulating account, a Spanish caravan traveling north from Chihuahua toward the…
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