Hillsboro Historical Society

Mark B. Thompson, III It seems fair to state that my great-grandfather, and Hillsboro, New Mexico politician, Nicholas Galles, was undo...

Mark B. Thompson, III Almost ten years before his death, the Santa Fe New Mexican ran a front page article about Nicholas Galles on ...

Thanks to the Menaul Historical Museum of the Southwest, we have this snapshot of activities of Hillsboro's Union Church, as remembered ...

Romolo Montoya of Monticello, New Mexico, documented in April 1880 that he lost cows, calves, oxen, and one mule, all told worth $775. Mo...

by Craig Springer The Bridal Chamber, perhaps the richest silver mine in the history of the American Southwest, is the story twice-told.  A...

By Mark B. Thompson, III So said the Albuquerque Journal in its article noting his passing in Las Cruces, New Mexico on December 5, 1911. Ga...

By Craig Springer The date, September 11, is seared in American memory. And it was one that perhaps was not forgotten by those who lived in...