1610 — Spanish capital: Spanish colonists under Pedro de Peralta established Santa Fe as the capital of Nuevo México. It became the governmental center of the Spanish colony. Santa Fe is commonly described as the oldest continuously inhabited state capital in the United States.
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In 1706, Spanish colonial leaders founded La Villa de Alburquerque in the Rio Grande Valley, named after the Duke of Alburquerque.
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Before the town, the area was known as Antelope Spring. The commonly accepted story dates the name Flagstaff to Boston emigrants on July 4, 1876.
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Stop six on our road trip: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, where the Ancestral Pueblo people built more than 600 cliff dwellings.
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Route 66 was once a key path for people heading west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, helping to boost the economies of towns along the way.
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