VALENCIA

NAME: Valencia COUNTY: Valencia ROADS: 2WD GRID: 2 CLIMATE: Beautiful BEST TIME TO VISIT: Any time

COMMENTS: Valencia. Post office 1884/1904; 1923/1934; mail to los lunas. REMAINS: It is now a part of a city.

Valencia. Trading point on nm 47, 14 mi n of belen, and 2 mi e of los lunas. Named for juan de valencia, who settled in this area in the seventeenth century. His decendants returned here after the spanis reoccupied nm in 1692. One of the oldest spanish-american settlements in county and at one time the county seat. Mail to los lunas.Valencia county. Created by the republic of mexico in 1844 and confirmed by the new mexico territorial legislature, jan. 9, 1852. Named for the town in the county. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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