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Puerto de Luna, NM - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Puerto de Luna  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Puerto de Luna Home page. The Puerto de Luna Home page provides as much information as possible on Puerto de Luna. Knowing Puerto de Luna’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Puerto de Luna’s Home page, you will also find Puerto de Luna’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Puerto de Luna has a population of 226. 41.2% of Puerto de Luna’s inhabitants are Male, and 58.8 are female. 81.4% of Puerto de Luna is married and 100% own their own home. Household median income in Puerto de Luna is $223,385, and the individual median income is $70,110. Puerto de Luna’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(96.5%), Multiple(83.2%), Other(13.3%), White(3.5%).


The site is reputed to have been visited by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, who is believed to have camped here in 1541, on his way east in search of Quivira.The first recorded permanent settlement was in 1863 when six Hispanic families built a dike on the Pecos to divert water for irrigation and began land cultivation.


A post office was established in 1873. A notable settler was Padre Polaco, a.k.a. Alexander Grzelachowski, who originally came to New Mexico at age 27 with Archbishop Lamy and settled in Puerto de Luna in 1874, opening up the mercantile store. In 1891, he donated the land for the county courthouse. and the community became the county seat of Guadalupe County.


The community was, however, overtaken by Santa Rosa when the railroad arrived there, and went into decline shortly after. The county seat was moved to Santa Rosa in 1903.Billy the Kid reportedly ate his last Christmas Eve dinner here in 1880 while being transported to trial in Las Vegas in the custody of Pat Garrett.The author Rudolfo Anaya references Puerto De Luna in his autobiographical novel Bless Me, Ultima. The author Calvin Rutstrum bought, renovated and lived in a house here in the 1960s.


His book Greenhorns in the Southwest (University of New Mexico Press, 1972) is a semi-autobiographical account of that period. The roofless shell of the county courthouse remains the largest edifice.


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