[sean327]

The old Spanish families of New Mexico beg to differ. My family settled in what is now Sandoval County in 1598.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Very cool, I work with some folks that can trace their families back that far.

[Inyo-Mono]

My family settled in what is now Sandoval County in 1598

Wow! That is a long time. You beat my family by 49 years. Mine didn't arrive in America (Virginia) until 1647.

[BuffaloJack]

> My family settled in what is now Sandoval County in 1598.

Wow, that’s cool. Your people must have been checking the passports of my people.
We didn’t get here until 1607 on the Godspeed.

[muawiyah]

The old Spanish families in Santa Fe area own some old rocks with carvings on them showing the location of the lost Dutchman mine ~ total fiction ~ of course ~ except if you know what the maps on the rocks are saying that was a place in Virginia up near Harpers Ferry. There was fresh water there, and the initial Spanish surveys of the area later on used Point of Rocks island as a benchmark. punto de rocas or lugar de rocas. local creek is called lost Dutchman creek ~ I think some of the military garrison in Virginia went to Las Lunas or Santa Fe in 1598. That area is right on top the old carolana road ~ which was first an Indian trail, then a Spanish trek, and then used all the way down to our time when it's called US 15. It parallels the Gold Vein along the Fall Line.

There, 450 years of history in a single paragraph.

[Jane Long]

The Don Juan de Onate exploration (for Spain) entered through El Paso in 1595.

[Amberdawn]

Wow!