Las Vegas, New Mexico This article is about the town/city in New Mexico.
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Las Vegas, New Mexico Downtown Las Vegas Downtown Las Vegas Location of Las Vegas, New Mexico Location of Las Vegas, New Mexico State New Mexico Las Vegas is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate municipalities (one a town/city and the other a town) both titled Las Vegas, west Las Vegas ("Old Town") and east Las Vegas ("New Town"), separated by the Gallinas River, retain distinct characters and separate, rival school districts.
Las Vegas, NM is positioned 110 miles (180 km) south of Raton, New Mexico, 65 miles (105 km) east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, 122 miles (196 km) northeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 257 miles (414 km) south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and 326 miles (525 km) south of Denver, Colorado.
The Plaza Hotel, assembled in 1881, on the Plaza of West Las Vegas New Mexico Insane Asylum in Las Vegas, 1904 Las Vegas was established in 1835 after a group of pioneer received a territory grant from the Mexican government.
Las Vegas soon prospered as a stop on the Santa Fe Trail.
Kearny bringed an address at the Plaza of Las Vegas claiming New Mexico for the United States.
In 1877 Las Vegas College, the precursor to Regis University, was established in Las Vegas by a group of exiled Italian Jesuits.
In 1887, Las Vegas College moved to Denver whereupon the name was changed. To maintain control of evolution rights, it established a station and related evolution one mile (1.6 km) east of the Plaza, creating a separate, rival New Town, as occurred elsewhere in the Old West.
During the barns era Las Vegas boomed, quickly becoming one of the biggest cities in the American Southwest.
Turn-of-the-century Las Vegas featured all the undivided amenities, including an electric street stockyards , the "Duncan Opera House" at the northeast corner of 6th Street and Douglas Avenue, a Carnegie library, the Hotel Castaneda (a primary Harvey House), and the New Mexico Normal School (now New Mexico Highlands University).
Although the two suburbs have been combined, separate school districts have been maintained (Las Vegas City Schools and West Las Vegas School District).
These reunions were meant to jubilate the ranching life that took place in northern New Mexico in the late 1800s.
They brought the working cowhand and celebrities of Rodeos together in the town of Las Vegas.
Historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell once claimed regarding the Old West, "Without exception there was no town which harbored a more disreputable gang of desperadoes and outlaws than did Las Vegas." Climate data for Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The New Mexico Highlands University is home to the Thomas C.
Las Vegas' Carnegie Library, established in 1904, is the only surviving Carnegie Library in New Mexico.
The City of Las Vegas Museum & Rough Rider Memorial on Grand Avenue, dedicated in 1940, was first established by the decision of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders regiment (the first Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Spanish American War), who titled Las Vegas its official reunion home.
Their first reunion was held in Las Vegas, June 1899.
The exhibition illuminates the history of Las Vegas, its connection to the Rough Riders, the Santa Fe Trail and the evolution of New Mexico.
Las Vegas has various historic structures (mostly barns -era homes and commercial buildings), with over 900 listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Old City Hall, New Mexico's first municipal building, instead of in 1892 La Castaneda Hotel, mission-style Harvey House assembled in 1898 The City of Las Vegas is served by two enhance school districts.
Las Vegas City Schools - Serves the East side of Las Vegas.
West Las Vegas School District - Serves the West side of Las Vegas.
The City of Las Vegas has two primary high schools: West Las Vegas High School Las Vegas is the home of New Mexico Highlands University and Luna Community College.
The United World College in close-by Montezuma, New Mexico is a two-year global high school and one of the venues used by the International Baccalaureate Program for teacher training in the United States.
Las Vegas Intermodal Facility Las Vegas Amtrak Station is a stop on the Southwest Chief route.
Las Vegas Municipal Airport Single engine, small commercial jets, and helicopters.
Movies filmed in and around Las Vegas: Many silent Western films were made in and around Las Vegas, especially in the years 1913-1915, including a number that starred Tom Mix.
The 1962-1963 NBC tv series Empire and its second-season version entitled Redigo were filmed in Santa Fe and near Storrie Lake in Las Vegas.
In the 1969 movie Easy Rider, Las Vegas, New Mexico, is the town where the two bikers ride behind a parade, are arrested for "parading without a permit," and meet Jack Nicholson's character in jail.
Las Vegas stood in for the fictional Calumet, Colorado in John Milius' 1984 film Red Dawn.
Parts of the 1994 film Speechless, with Geena Davis and Michael Keaton, about a fictional New Mexico senatorial campaign, were filmed in Las Vegas.
Most of the 1994 film Wyatt Earp, with Kevin Costner was filmed in Las Vegas, though it was set in Kansas.
In the 2001 documentary Freedom Downtime, a cross-country road trip to Las Vegas, Nevada ends up in Las Vegas, New Mexico, by mistake.
In 2006, the film Fanboys used Las Vegas as one of its film locations.
The 2007 film Wild Hogs starring John Travolta encompassed scenes filmed around Las Vegas.
The 2008 film Beer for My Horses starring Toby Keith and Rodney Carrington was filmed in and around Las Vegas.
The 2009 thriller Not Forgotten was shot in Las Vegas for incentives reasons.
And Zach Galifinakis was partly filmed in Las Vegas, and was used as a fake border crossing into Mexico.
Scenes for the 2011 film Paul starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost with Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Seth Rogen, Joe Lo Truglio and Sigourney Weaver, were filmed in and around Las Vegas.
The 2012 A&E TV Series Longmire starring Robert Taylor and Katee Sackhoff and set in Wyoming is being filmed in Las Vegas. Margaret Larkin (1899 1967), American writer and musician, was born in Las Vegas (1923 1980), American heir and businessman, was born in Las Vegas Patrick Swayze (1952 2009), American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter, had a ranch in Las Vegas Romero Pat,"Cowboy Reunions of Las Vegas New Mexico," (The history press 2012) "New Mexico Legends - Las Vegas - As Wicked as Dodge City".
"LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO - The Outlaw and a Politician".
"City of Las Vegas Museum & Rough Rider Memorial Collection".
"A & E will film the new series 'Longmire', starring Katee Sackhoff & Lou Diamond Phillips, in New Mexico this spring".
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Municipalities and communities of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States State of New Mexico
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Las Vegas, New Mexico - Cities in San Miguel County, New Mexico - Santa Fe Trail - County seats in New Mexico - Populated places established in 1835
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