Hillsboro Historical Society

This portion of the 1888 township subdivisional survey plat map shows Gavilan Trail heading over the pass in the Mimbres Mountains. This is ...

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 ...

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...

By Craig Springer Unless you live under a rock, you no doubt have heard that the U.S. military evoked the name of a former (albeit transie...