Taos, New Mexico Taos, New Mexico Taos Plaza and the Hotel La Fonda, inside the Taos Downtown Historic District Taos Plaza and the Hotel La Fonda, inside the Taos Downtown Historic District Official seal of Taos, New Mexico Location of Taos, New Mexico Location of Taos, New Mexico Taos, New Mexico is positioned in the US Taos, New Mexico - Taos, New Mexico County Taos Taos / ta s/ is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, incorporated in 1934.
Other close-by communities include Ranchos de Taos, Canon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, El Prado, and Arroyo Seco.
The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American village and tribe from which it takes its name.
Taos is the governmental center of county of Taos County.
The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning "place of red willows".
Taos is the principal town/city of the Taos, NM Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Taos County.
1.1 Taos Pueblo 1.4 Taos art colony Main article: Taos Pueblo The Taos Pueblo, which borders the town of Taos on its north side, has been occupied for nearly a millennium.
There are over 1,900 Taos Indians living inside the greater pueblo-area community.
About 150 citizens live inside the chief pueblo buildings year-round. The Taos Pueblo was added as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. Taos was established c.
1615 as Don Fernando de Taos, following the Spanish conquest of the Indian Pueblo villages by Geneva Vigil.
Initially, relations of the Spanish pioneer with Taos Pueblo were amicable, but resentment of meddling by missionaries, and demands by encomenderos for tribute, led to a revolt in 1640; Taos Indians killed their priest and a number of Spanish settlers, and fled the pueblo, not returning until 1661. In 1680, Taos Pueblo joined the widespread Pueblo Revolt.
After the Spanish Reconquest of 1692, Taos Pueblo continued armed resistance to the Spanish until 1696, when Governor Diego de Vargas defeated the Indians at Taos Canyon. Between 1780 and 1800, Don Fernando de Taos (now Taos) was established. Between 1796 and 1797 the Don Fernando de Taos Land Grant gave territory to 63 Spanish families in the Taos valley. It was assembled as a fortified plaza with adobe buildings and is now a central plaza surrounded by residentiary areas. Mountain men who trapped for beaver close-by made Taos their home in the early 1800s. takeover of New Mexico in 1847, Hispanics and American Indians in Taos staged a rebellion, known as the Taos Revolt, in which the newly appointed U.S.
For historical reasons, the American flag is displayed continuously at Taos Plaza (both day and evening).
Taos art colony Main articles: Taos Society of Artists and Taos art colony Beginning in 1899, artists began to settle in Taos; six formed the Taos Society of Artists in 1915.
In time, the Taos art colony developed.
Many paintings were made of small-town scenes, especially of Taos Pueblo and activities there, as the artists often modelled Native Americans from the pueblo in their paintings.
Some of the artists' studios have been preserved and may be viewed by visitors to Taos.
Blumenschein House, the Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio Joseph Henry Sharp Studios, and the Nicolai Fechin home, all of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Influential later 20th-century Taos artists include R.
Taos Pueblo See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Taos County, New Mexico Taos is home to more than twenty sites on the National Register of Historic Places. About 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Taos is Taos Pueblo; Picuris Pueblo is about 25 miles (40 km) south.
The Fiestas de Taos is an annual improve celebration in the Taos Plaza honoring the Feast of the two patron saints of Taos, Santa Ana and Santiago.
Located just North of the Taos Plaza, this street was the locale of Governor Charles Bent's home.
Governor Bent was scalped and killed by Pueblo warriors amid the Taos Revolt, on January 19, 1847.
On Ledoux street, just south of the Taos Plaza, is the Ernest L.
The center of the Taos Downtown Historic District is the Taos Plaza.
North of the Taos Plaza is the Governor Charles Bent House and the Taos Inn.
Further north in Taos The Bernard Beimer House.
On the southwestern edge of the Taos Historic precinct is La Loma Plaza Historic District.
North of Taos is the Turley Mill and Distillery Site and the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge.
Just outside Taos in Ranchitos is the Martinez Hacienda, the home turned exhibition of the late Padre Antonio Jose Martinez.
South of Taos is the Ranchos de Taos Plaza with the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church.
Taos Historic District Places from Taos Plaza Governor Charles Bent House, Taos Inn, The Bernard Beimer House, Taos Art Museum, the Nicolai Fechin House, Taos Pueblo Mabel Dodge Luhan House Taos Plaza inside the Taos Downtown Historic District There are three art exhibitions in Taos: Harwood Museum of Art, Taos Art Museum and Millicent Rogers Museum that furnish art from the Pueblo Native Americans, Taos Society of Artists and undivided and intact artists of the Taos art colony.
The town has more than 80 art arcades, and there are a several homes of the Taos Society of Artists. There are a several small-town venues for the performing arts in Taos.
The Taos Center for the Arts (TCA) draws nationally famous and small-town performers at the Taos Community Auditorium.
Three chamber music groups perform at TCA: Taos School of Music, Taos Chamber Music Group, and Music from Angel Fire.
The Town of Taos Convention Center offers a venue for other small-town performances. The Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival was a film festival held in the town from the mid-1990s to 2003.
The Taos valley, Rio Grande and Taos mountain peaks furnish many opportunities for recreation, such as fly fishing, horseback riding, golfing, hot air ballooning, llama trekking, rafting, and mountain biking.
There are also various hot springs along the Rio Grande and in the Taos Mountains.
In the winter, many citizens come to Taos to ski in the mountain peaks.
The Taos region has four ski areas Taos Ski Valley, Red River ski area, Sipapu (ski area) and Angel Fire ski area.
Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, Tres Piedras, Toltec Gorge Taos Pueblo, Valdez, Questa Taos Ski Valley, Wheeler Peak, Red River Rancho de Taos, Ojo Caliente Sipapu, Penasco, Picuris Pueblo Santa Fe National Forest As of the 2010 census Taos had a populace of 5,716.
View north from Taos Plaza toward Taos Mountain Taos is positioned at 36 23 38 N 105 34 36 W (36.393979, 105.576705). Taos is positioned near the Rio Pueblo de Taos, a tributary of the Rio Grande.
Just to the west of Taos is the Rio Grande Gorge, cutting through the basalt flows of the Taos Plateau volcanic field and crossed by the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, now a part of U.S.
The altitude of the town is 6,967 feet (2,124 m). Just north of Taos is Wheeler Peak, at 13,161 feet (4,011 m), the highest point in New Mexico. Taos has a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) with extreme diurnal variations of temperature and low rainfall.
Climate data for Taos, New Mexico The town's enhance schools directed by Taos Municipal Schools include Arroyos del Norte Elementary School, Enos Garcia Elementary (also Taos Elementary School), Ranchos Elementary School, Taos Middle School, Taos High School and Taos Cyber Magnet School. Charter schools include Anansi Charter School, Taos Academy (State Charter), Taos Municipal Charter School and Vista Grande High School. Also in the region are additional alternative and private schools: Chrysalis Alternative School, Sped Discipline, Yaxche Private School, Taos Christian Academy, and San Francisco De Asis School. Albuquerque-based University of New Mexico (UNM) operates a improve ground in Taos, with eight affiliated buildings in Taos, such as the UNM Harwood Museum of Art and Taos High School where some classes are held. Taos Town Hall The town of Taos is incorporated under the mayor-council form of government.
The town was incorporated on May 7, 1934. The town seal is a logo of the town of Taos with the year of incorporation "1934" in the center, and on the outer edge, the words "Town of Taos, New Mexico". The town manager and finance director serve as the nonvoting members to the board of finance. Key positiongs inside the town government are town manager, appointed by the major, Town Attorney, Town Clerk, Town Engineer and Chief of Police. Taos is dominantly made up of Democrats; in 2008, approximately 74% of registered Taos County voters were Democrats, 13% were Republicans and about 13% identified with other parties or declined to partner with a party. The Chile Line, directed by the town of Taos, is Taos' only enhance transit system.
The Taos Express is a shuttle service created by the Town of Taos to promote small-town tourism.
It provides transit on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from the Taos Plaza to the New Mexico Rail Runner, Santa Fe Municipal Airport, and Santa Fe transit. The Taos region has service to Cerro, Penasco, Questa, Red River, the Rio Grande corridor and the University of New Mexico Taos Klaur campus.
At the Oh - Kay Owingeh Casino passengers can connect to other county-wide routes, such as Espanola, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, and Northern Pueblos area. In 2003 the Regional Transit District Act was enacted, which authorized the creation of Regional Transit Districts (RTD's) in the state of New Mexico; In September, 2004, the North Central Regional RTD was the first RTD to be certified by the New Mexico Transportation Commission. Taos Regional Airport (SKX) is under the direct oversight of the Town of Taos.
The airport is positioned just a several miles north of the Town of Taos on U.S.
El Crepusculo de la Libertad was the first Taos newspaper, which began in 1834 with the first printing press west of the Mississippi. Its successor The Taos News, which also does company as El Crepusculo, is the major printed journal in Taos.
The Taos News, a weekly online and print publication. Sangre de Cristo Chronicle serves Angel Fire, New Mexico, Red River, Cimarron, Eagle Nest, Taos, Las Vegas, Questa and Sipapu. Taos News is an online news site by Topix that pulls and reports news articles about Taos. There are two small-town cable tv stations: Taos Local Television Public Access Channel 2 and Channel 22. See also List of tv stations in New Mexico.
KXMT 99.1 FM Radio Exitos is the small-town 24-hour Spanish airways broadcast serving Taos, northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. KYBR 92.9 FM Spanish. Located in Espanola, but serves Santa Fe and Taos as well. An ongoing low-frequency noise, audible only to some, is thought to originate somewhere near this town and is consequently sometimes known as the Taos Hum.
The Taos Hum was featured on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries, and it was also briefly mentioned in an episode of The X-Files. Blumenschein, beginning member, Taos Society of Artists Margaret Catherine Alice Hyson, missionary and teacher in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico Robert Mirabal, Native American flute player and manufacturer from Taos Pueblo View of Taos from mountain trail Downtown Paseo Del Pueblo Norte in Taos San Francisco de Asis Church at Ranchos de Taos a b "About Taos Pueblo FAQs".
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