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Velarde is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 502 at the time of the 2010 census. Velarde is located on New Mexico State Road 68, in the Rio Grande Rift, right at the point where the road enters the Rio Grande Gorge. ==History== The name Velarde first appeared when a U.S. post office was opened at the location in 1855.〔Bullock, Alice (1981) ("Mountain Villages" ) (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press), pg. 71〕 The first postmaster, David Velarde, named the postal location in honor of his Spanish-born ancestor, Juan Antonio Pérez Velarde, who settled near Guadalupe del Paso (present Ciudad Juárez, Mexico) in 1725. His move to this Rio Grande settlement encouraged other members of his family to move north into colonial New Mexico in the mid-18th century.〔("New Mexico Office of the State Historian page on the Velarde family" )〕〔("Trip Trivia: Velarde" )〕〔Robert Hixson. "The Place Names of New Mexico" (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press)〕 However, the town was organized only in 1875 by Matias Velarde, who established the town as "La Jolla", the name most likely originating from a 1712 Spanish land grant given to Sebastian Martin in the post-Pueblo Revolt resettlement of the region.〔Pike, David (2004) ("Roadside New Mexico: A Guide to Historic Markers" ) (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press)〕〔Nostrand, Richard L. (1992) ("The Hispano Homeland" ) (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press)〕 This was likely a misspelling of "La Joya," which translates from Spanish as "The Basin". This geographical description was said to refer to the Tewa name for the location (Phahu'bu'u, or Tsigubu'u), which meant "basin of the chico bush or rabbit thorn".〔 The community, located at the mouth of the Rio Grande canyon along the Low Road to Taos (not really part of the Camino Real, despite the ancient pathway over Embudo Pass being designated so by a historical marker 〔), had through its Spanish-settled history served mostly as a peaceful resting spot for passing travelers, especially for those heading north out of the low river country. During the Taos Revolt in the latter part of the Mexican-American War, however, it was part of the scene of the Battle of Embudo Pass, which took place on Jan. 29, 1847. Despite the shelter of "dense masses of cedar and large fragments of rock" that were formed into defensive positions, the Tewa warriors and Mexican defenders in the battle were routed by U.S. Col. Sterling Price, military governor, and his Missouri Mounted Volunteers, leading to the U.S. siege of Taos Pueblo less than a week's forced march later. Etches of crosses still mark the rocks near where the 20 local fighters had fallen. A map drawn at that time by the invading Americans referred to the settlement simply as "Joya." Sometime after the battle, Col. Edwin Vose Sumner, who later served as military governor of New Mexico between 1851 and 1853, sent a Major Gordon with a detachment of infantry to establish a post below the Rio Grande canyon in present Velarde, but no sooner had his men settled in, the unit was ordered to return to Taos.〔 Although originally a part of the San Antonio de Embudo parish (based at Dixon),〔("Dixon Church Records" ), St. Anthony Parish 1934 – 1955 Death Records〕 the village contains a mission church, called the "Iglesia de la Virgen de Guadalupe." Burials sometimes took place here, but mostly were conducted at the Velarde Cemetery.〔New Mexico Genealogical Society. ("Survey of the Velarde Cemetery, Rio Arriba County" ) New Mexico Genealogist, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, September 1987, page 73〕 Marriages were conducted sometimes at the San Antonio church in Dixon, but more often were held in the Catholic church of San Juan de los Caballeros (present Ohkay Owingeh). Orchards and vineyards were mentioned in an 1892 news report, but the first commercial apple-growing enterprises emerged only in the late 1920s.〔 Roadside stands greeted passing travelers when a modern highway was constructed to Taos through the village along the Rio Grande. Author Rubén Martinez, says of Velarde, where he wrote Desert America, "I might add that I live in one of the poorest villages in one of the poorest counties in one of the poorest states and that the region’s heroin addiction is higher than anywhere else in the country, rural or urban.” 〔Martinez, Rubén, ‘’ Desert America’’, Metropolitan Books, New York, 2012, p. 103〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Velarde, New Mexico」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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