GALISTEO

NAME: GALISTEO COUNTY: SANTA FE ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Enjoy ! BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time

COMMENTS: GALISTEO: Post office 1876/ 1959. REMAINS: Plenty

GALISTEO: Originally an Indian Pueblo 22 mi S of Santa Fe. First mentioned by the Fray Rodriguez exploration party in 1581. Governor Onate reports that he changed the name to SANTA ANA, which has not survived. Name is an old term for a native of Galicia, but it may have been transferred from a town in Estremadura in Spain. Galisteo became the seat of a Franciscan mission established between 1617 and 1629. In the Pueblo Revolt, the Indians killed the resident priest, the father custodian, and other missionaries. The name appears as 'Galisteo' on L'Atlas Curieux (1700). In 1706 the community was re established at Galisteo by Gov. Cuervo y Valdez. Between 1782 and 1794 the inhabitants moved to Santo Domingo to escape the Comanche raids.GALISTEO CREEK. Sandoval County. flows into the Rio Grande 2 mi N of Santo D9mingo near Lamy and flows W into the Rio Grande near Santo Domingo Pueblo.GALISTEO GRANT. Santa Fe County. Present maps show a tract about 1 mile square, just S of Galisteo. A land grant is recorded in 1814 and then confirmed in 1861 to Ignacio Chavez and others.GALISTEO LAKE. Santa Fe County. 1 1/2 mi S of Galisteo. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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