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Image of the Barela-Reynolds HouseSee For Yourself
Visit one of several National Register sites dedicated to hispanic cultures - including the Barela-Reynolds House in New Mexico, and the Bullion Plaza School in Arizona.
  Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2009

For Teachers
View Chamizal National Memorial teacher information, traveling trunks, online lessons and other resources to enliven classroom discussions.
Image of a visiting student's artwork at Chamizal NM
Inside Story
Ellis Island might be the most famous entryway to America, but Miami boasts a more recent chapter in the immigration story with the Freedom Tower.

Image of the entrance to Miami's Freedom Tower
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Mexican folklorico Dancers at La Fiesta de Tumacácori People
Learn about the Friends of Tumácacori
founded to assist the National Park Service by funding special projects at Tumácacori National Historical Park. This partnership not only helps to protect the church and historic mission grounds, it helps preserve the cultural history of the people who lived in the mission community by funding interpretive programs of the Park. More people...
image of Fort Jefferson in the Dry Totugas Places
Discover the strong influence of Spanish culture in Along the Georgia-Florida Coast which uses the area's historic sites, buildings, structures, objects, and districts to reveal many of the most important developments in America's past. More places...


historic image ofCaesar Cahvez at a union gatheringl Stories
Learn more about César Chávez and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (later the UFWA then the UFW, AFL-CIO), who began organizing farm laborers at Forty Acres in the 1960s. More stories...




image ofpaintings at the Chamizal gallery
Collections
Chamizal National Memorial exhibits artists whose work not only reflect the history and/or landscape of our border region, but also ties directly to the park's mission of commemorating the amicable resolution of a long standing border dispute between the U.S. and Mexico. More collections...
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image of for the Spanish Colonial Research Center Preservation
As a way of recognizing our Spanish colonial past in the area of present-day United States the National Park Service established the Spanish Colonial Research Center in 1986 as a partnership with the University of New Mexico to preserve hispanic culture. More preservation...
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image of theMexican flag at Chamizal
The Mexican flag is flown at Chamizal National Memorial out of respect for the sentiments that made the Chamizal Convention of 1963 a reality. The U.S. flag will always be on the left as you face the Memorial.
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