CANONCITO

NAME: CANONCITO COUNTY: SANTA FE ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Do not fret about the weather! BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: CANONCIO. Santa Fe County. Post office 1879/1880. REMAINS: Inquire locally.

CANONCITO. Trading point 15 mi SE of Santa Fe; in a defile where the old Santa Fe Trail enteres Apache Canyon. Here the Mexican ogovernor, Armijo, failed to hold his troops against General Kearny in August 1846, and here the Confederate supply train was destroyed by the Union general, Canby, in 1862, determining the battle of Glorieta in favor of the Union forces. On the rise of a hill is an old adobe house which served as the last stateion on the Santa Fe Trail before entering Santa Fe. Post office 1879, 1880.CANONCITO. Bernalillo County. Span. 'little canyon'. Settlement on a byroad from NM 10 at foot of Sandia Mts.CANONCITO. Bernalillo County. Navajo settlement and day school, N of US 66 and Ne of Laguna.CANONCITO. Mora County.CANONCITO. Rio Arriba County. On embudo Creed, 3 mi S of Dixon.CANONCITO. San Miguel County. On NM 94, 7 mi NW of Sapello.CANONES CREEK. Rio Arriba County. Enters Chama River a few miles S of Chama. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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