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Visitors Guide 2020 TOWN OF The Official Visitors Guide 2020 TOWN OF MESILLANeW MeXICO www.MesillanM.gov WelcomeBienvenidos It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the Es para mí un gran honor darle la bienvenida al pueblo Town of Mesilla, where events are not a trend, de Mesilla, donde los eventos no son una moda Mike Groves they’re tradition and where history is alive and sino una tradición y donde la historia está viva y en well! excelente forma. STAY AND ENJOY The Town of Mesilla is one of the oldest and most El pueblo de Mesilla es una de las comunidades más visited communities in southern New Mexico, antiguas y visitadas en el sur de Nuevo México, donde where the hospitality is warm and the chile is la hospitalidad es cálida y el chile es muy picante. HISTORIC OLD MESILLA hot. It is no wonder The Culture Trip, a renowned No es ninguna sorpresa que The Culture Trip, una international online magazine, named Mesilla one renombrada revista digital internacional, colocara a of the top 10 small towns in the country to visit. Mesilla como uno de los diez pequeños pueblos por The Town of Mesilla was also named the 2013 visitar en el país. El pueblo de Mesilla fue también HACIENDA STYLE! and 2014 Official Best Vacation Getaway in New nombrado el Mejor Escape Vacacional de Nuevo Mexico. It is easy to see why, with over fifty unique México en 2013 y 2014. Es fácil ver por qué: cuenta stores, boutiques & galleries, con más de cincuenta tiendas, boutiques y galerías award winning restaurants and únicas, así como con restaurantes y cafes, all within walking distance cafés galardonados, todos ellos en of one another. una distancia caminable. Our plaza, the heart of Mesilla, has Nuestra plaza, el corazón de Mesilla, been witness to many historical ha sido testigo de diversos eventos events, most significant was El históricos, principalmente el Tratado Tratado de La Mesilla, the signing de La Mesilla, la firma de la Compra of the Gadsden Purchase, which Gadsden, por el cual se traspasaron transferred lands, including the territorios de México a los Estados Town of Mesilla, from Mexico Unidos en 1854, incluyendo el to the United States in 1854. pueblo de Mesilla. Al día de hoy, Today, many traditional events are la plaza alberga diversos eventos still held in the plaza, including tradicionales, incluyendo nuestras our annual Cinco de Mayo & Diez y Seis de fiestas anuales del Cinco de Mayo y del Dieciséis de Septiembre Fiestas, our three day Dia de Los Septiembre, nuestra celebración del Día de Muertos Muertos Celebration and our annual Christmas durante tres días y nuestra ceremonia anual del Eve Lighting of the Luminarias ceremony. Encendido de las Luminarias en Nochebuena. ARRACHERA STEAK So, leave your passport and worries at home and Así que deje su pasaporte y preocupaciones en come visit us. Old Mesilla, shop and dine…the casa y visítenos. Antiguo Mesilla, compra y come… rest is history! ¡el resto es historia! 575.652.4953 HaciendaDeMesilla.com Sincerely, Sinceramente 1891 Avenida de Mesilla, Mesilla, NM Nora Barraza Nora Barraza Mayor, Town of Mesilla Mayor, Town of Mesilla CASUAL ELEGANCE 2 Old Mesilla Visitor’sIN GuideDINING | www.mesillanm.gov & LODGING Old Mesilla Visitor’s Guide | www.mesillanm.gov 3 Map 8 Freshly made What’s Salsa Bar Inside Local Gifts from our Mercado 8 history OPEN Catering 12 TOurs Mon-8:00am-2:30pm Tue-Sun-8:00am-9:00pm 14 day Trips 18 MerchaNTs 1950 Calle del Norte Mesilla, NM 20 Map Voted Best Green Enchiladas 22 caleNdar Of eVeNTs Map 9 24 farMer’s MarkeT • Mexican Hot Dogs, 25 pOliTical history Burgers & Top-Dog Mexican Food. 26 a liTTle more history • Big Selection of Draft & Bottled Beer. 28 Galleries • Well-Behaved Pets on Leash Always Welcome on Patio. 29 BILLY The kid www.andelerestaurante.com 30 diNiNG open daily • 11am-9pm 32 eXperieNce Mesilla 34 accommodaTiONs 575-526-1271 36 MuseuMs 1983 calle del norte • Mesilla, nM 38 faciliTies Old Mesilla Visitor’s Guide | www.mesillanm.gov 5 Map 41 Gadsden Museum Celebrating 88 years 1875 Boutz Rd Ristramnn shown by appointment (575) 526-6293 Established in 1931and dedicated Chile Co. to Col. Albert J. Fountain. Artifacts dating back to 1500’s. Replica of the jail housing Billy the Kid. 575-526-8667 www.RistramanChile.com [email protected] Map 2531 Avenida de Mesilla 85 La Mesilla, NM 88005 Eight generations of preserving Mesilla. ¡Viva La Mesilla! Exits to Old Mesilla from alBuquerque - i-25 ExiT 1 from phOeNiX i-10 - Mesilla ExiT 140 Map Turn right on University Avenue Turn right on Avenida de Mesilla - 1 Mile 54 Drive West approximately 6 miles US 70 from el pasO - Take i-10 WesT Take I-25 South to I-10 West, Approximately 40 miles to Mesilla Exit 140, to Mesilla Exit 140, Turn left on Avenida de Mesilla - 1 Mile Turn left on Avenida de Mesilla - 1 Mile Awards & On the Plaza in Recognitions historic Old Mesilla • 2018 Fourteen churches that will leave you speechless visitor’s (OnlyInYourState.com) Center Over 20 local artists • 2018 tHE 8th coziest TOWN IN new Mexico 2231 Avenida de Mesilla, featured (OnlyInYourState.com) Mesilla NM, 88046 Open Daily from: Open EVERYDAY • 2017 Budget Friendly road trips in nM 8:00am to 5:00pm 11-6 • 2016 top 6 Best historic plazas in nM (575) 524-3262 • 2013/2014 Official Best vacation getaway FOLLOW US ON: • top 10 Small towns to visit Shop at: www.JulienneJewelryOnline.com www.mesillanm.gov Published, designed & distributed by TMG Marketing, 226 S. Water St., Las Cruces, NM 88001 • 575-523-1799 The material that appears on the Town of Mesilla’s Visitor’s Guide is for informational and entertainment purposes only. Despite our efforts to provide useful and accurate information, errors | www.mesillanm.gov 6 may appear. The Town of Mesilla and its information providers assume no responsibility as to the reliability, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of the information in the guide. 11/2019. 20 Old Mesilla Visitor’s Guide 7 Map 15 Historyof Mesilla he history of Mesilla is a complex one and there are Mesilla Book many accounts of how things Center Tactually happened. What we know for sure is that hundreds of years later, Books about the West, Mexico, Horses, Mesilla has maintained its quaint, Mesilla as the capital of the new Cowboys, Native Americans, & more. charming appeal of long ago. Confederate Territory of Arizona. Children’s books & toys, gifts and more. The Civil War ended in Mesilla in 1862 “Some of the best books In the early to mid 1800s, the Camino after Colonel Baylor and the confederate never make the bestseller lists” Real Trail that traveled from Chihuahua troops retreated to Texas. to Santa Fe, and the Butterfield Tue.- Sat. 11am-5:30pm Stagecoach from San Antonio to San By the 1870s Mesilla was in her prime (575) 526-6220 Sun. 1pm-5pm Diego, turned the region into a hub and there were several stores, doctors, for commerce and transportation in lawyers, carpenter shops as well as other 2360 Calle de Principal Monday 11am-5:00pm the region. At this point, the area of establishments. However, the hustle Mesilla was still uncharted territory; and bustle of Mesilla not only attracted Map not many settlers had yet made it their businessmen and commerce, it also 112 home. attracted outlaws like Billy the Kid. It was in Mesilla that the Kid was tried and It was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo sentenced to death by hanging in 1881. in 1848 that attracted early settlers to Mesilla and thus began populating the With the booming commerce and town. It was established as a colony constant traffic, Mesilla was actually at by the early 1850s, around the time one time the largest U.S. town between that the United States and Mexico San Antonio and San Diego. But, the settled the boundary dispute that once thriving town, and the obvious arose from the Treaty of Guadalupe choice for a railroad, was stunted Hidalgo. The settlement, known as the when, in 1881, it was decided that the Gadsden Purchase, was effectuated incoming railway would be constructed The potteries on November 16, 1854 in Mesilla by through the neighboring town of Las dinnerware, lighting and paintings taking down the Mexican flag and Cruces instead. The Potteries is a working artist studio. Bill Cook raising the United States flag. makes architectural lighting from earthenware clay he digs himself. Janice Cook has sculpture and Today, many of Mesilla’s residents are porcelain dinnerware in bright colors. Jeanne In late July 1861, 300 Texas troops direct descendants of its early settlers. Rundell is a painter known for her whimsy. led by Confederate Col. John Baylor The town and its people are a true (575) 524-0538 captured Fort Fillmore, just outside representation of the community’s 2260 calle de santiago, Box 64 of Mesilla. After defeating the Union Native-American, Spanish, Mexican and www.thepotteriesmesilla.com troops Baylor named the town of Anglo-American heritage. Tues.-sat. 11am-5pm closed sunday & Monday 8 Old Mesilla Visitor’s Guide | www.mesillanm.gov Old Mesilla Visitor’s Guide | www.mesillanm.gov 9 Map Confederado de Arizona. La Guerra 110 Civil terminó en Mesilla en 1862, luego de que el coronel Baylor y las tropas Historia confederadas se retiraran a Texas. De La Mesilla Para la década de 1870, Mesilla estaba en sus mejores momentos y contaba a historia de Mesilla es compleja con tiendas, médicos, abogados, y existen diversas versiones de carpinterías y otros establecimientos. cómo es que sucedieron las Sin embargo, el ir y venir de Mesilla Lcosas.
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