The town of Las Vegas began as a Santa Fe Trail town in 1835. The
trail passed through the plaza, and presumably many of the traders stayed here.
It is thought that from the top of the flat-roofed adobe structure, between numbers 210 -
218 on the north side of the plaza, that Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny claimed
the New Mexico Territory for the United States in 1846.
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