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The Mesilla Park Elementary School, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.The New Mexico Historic Preservation Commission stated that "The school is notable for its brick construction and its numerous additions built between 1916-1963 as the agricultural valley saw rapid growth because of its pecan orchards and other crops, and the growth of New Mexico State University Mesilla Park Elementary began as a one-room adobe school house in 1901."It also is a contributing building in the 2016-listed Mesilla Park Historic District. It is now the Frank O'Brien Papen Community Center. It was built, beginning in 1907, in the new Bowman Addition development."The Mesilla Park Elementary School is a large, sprawling, one-story school building (photo 32). Designed by Henry Trost and built in 1907, the school is a Spanish Mission Revival-style building with decorative pediment above the main entrance. The brick building was covered with a hipped roof and included four classrooms. As the student population increased, a series of additions were added beginning in 1916 with two additions on the north and south ends to accommodate four additional classrooms and an auditorium on the rear (west) side of the building. In 1934, classroom additions were again added to the north and south ends of the school. In 1943, a new, larger auditorium, which seats 400 students, was built on the west end of the 1934 auditorium. Lastly, in 1963, a cafeteria was built on the southwest side of the roughly T-shaped building."

Mesilla Park is a neighborhood located on the south side of Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. Residents of Mesilla founded the community through a land company in 1887, shortly after Las Cruces became the county seat of Doña Ana County. At the time, it was an independent settlement, though it was eventually annexed by Las Cruces. The neighborhood adjoins University Park, the site of New Mexico State University, and it grew after the university was founded in 1889. Mesilla Park still has its own post office with ZIP code 88047, which opened in 1892.

The Mesilla Park Historic District, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The listing included 131 contributing buildings and two contributing structures on 184 acres (74 ha).It is roughly bounded by Bowman St., Union and University Aves., and Park Drain.The district includes: Mesilla Park Elementary School (1907-1963), separately listed on the National Register in 2015 a railroad depot (1925) St. James Episcopal Church (1911)

The Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the village of Tortugas, New Mexico, in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, is an annual three day festival in December. It includes processions, church services, traditional dances, and a 4-mile (6.4 km) pilgrimage up Tortugas Mountain. The festival is held December 10, 11, 12.It honors the Virgin and relates to Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.The festival originated at the Mission Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in what is now Chihuahua in Mexico and was moved later to Tortugas, New Mexico.The Tortugas Pueblo Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe is the name of a 2017 listing on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It presumably includes the shrine and parish of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The announced bounds of the listing ("bounded by Emilia Rd., E. Guadalupe St., Juan Diego Ave., and Stern Dr.") enclose a five block area, which does include the Our Lady of Guadalupe school.There was no festival in 2020.

Tortugas, New Mexico or Tortugas Pueblo is a community in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, just outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico. As of the 2020 census, the CDP's population was 579.

Doña Ana Community College is a public community college with several campuses in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. It was established in 1973 at the request of the Gadsden, Hatch, and Las Cruces school boards to provided vocational and technical education opportunities to the citizens of Doña Ana County. It is independently accredited by The Higher Learning Commission. The community college offers instruction leading to associate degrees and technical certificates and preparation for further academic work. It is a branch of New Mexico State University. Doña Ana Community College has six campuses, with three in Las Cruces, and one each in Anthony, Sunland Park, and Chaparral. Dual credit classes are also offered in conjunction with local high schools.As of 2017, the school had 10,644 credit students (including part-time) and 3,498 non-credit students.

The Second Battle of Mesilla was an unusual engagement of the American Civil War. It was fought on July 1, 1862, and was the last engagement between Union and Confederate forces in the Arizona Territory. A skirmish outside of Confederate Arizona's capital of Mesilla between a confederate party and local pro-Union New Mexican guerrillas resisting the Confederate foraging expedition, resulted in a United States victory. Various accounts report from seven to twelve Confederates killed, including their commander Capt. Cleaver of the 7th Texas Infantry and as many as 40 of the local guerrillas.The arrival of the advance party of the California Column on the west bank of the Rio Grande on July 4, 1862, prompted the rebel army to begin withdrawal to Franklin and then San Antonio three days later, covered by Herbert's Battalion of Arizona Cavalry acting as rearguard.

The Mesilla Diversion Dam is located in the Rio Grande about 40 miles (64 km) upstream of El Paso, Texas, about 6 miles (9.7 km) to the south of Las Cruces, New Mexico. It diverts water from the river for irrigation in the lower Mesilla Valley. The dam is owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, which built it, and is operated by the Elephant Butte Irrigation District.

The Barela-Reynolds House is a historic adobe and brick building complex on the historic plaza in Mesilla, New Mexico, with a store at the front and a house at the rear. A zaguan (covered entryway) leads to a rear courtyard about 30 by 30 feet (9.1 m × 9.1 m) in plan, enclosed by the buildings, the oldest of which were built around 1850. Two separate parts were merged into one property in 1903. North of the zaguan was a store operated during the 1850s by trader Mariano Yrissari and later by trader Mariano Barela. The front of this portion is topped by a triangular parapet, a Greek Revival style feature adopted into New Mexico's Territorial style, and the triangle is repeated in pedimented lintels of two doorways and two large windows. This part was a silversmith shop, "El Platero", in 1977 (per National Register nomination), which moved to the other part by 2009 (per photo). South of the zaguan is a portion occupied by an antique shop, "Las Viejas", in 1977 (and occupied by "El Platero" in 2009). This part has a cast iron front and a metal, bracketed cornice, with a flagpole centered above. It was the "notions and dry goods department" of the Reynolds and Griggs Co., a firm which operated feed and grocery business in the next building to the south, not part of this property.Part of the complex was built around 1850, the year that the New Mexico Territory was established, for Anastacio Barela and his wife, Maria Rafaela Garcia Barela. It was purchased and remodelled by William Charles Reynolds in 1903–04. From 1913 to 1937, it belonged to Fr. Juan Grange of San Albino Church, who taught catechism here. Part of the present property was purchased and refurbished by J. Paul Taylor in 1953. The building has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 20, 1978.

Mesilla Plaza is the central plaza in the small town of Mesilla in far southern New Mexico. The plaza and a number of its surrounding buildings are a National Historic Landmark District, significant for its role in the transfers of power that brought first the original New Mexico Territory and later the Gadsden Purchase into United States control. The most notable building facing the plaza is the Basilica of San Albino, which has been on the plaza since its establishment in 1851. The plaza was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.

The Basilica of San Albino (Spanish: Basílica de San Albino), formerly known as San Albino Church of Mesilla, is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces and is located in Mesilla, New Mexico. It has the distinction of having originally been established in Mexico, but it is now located in the United States as a result of a transfer of territory in the Gadsden Purchase. The first church on the site was built in 1852; the current structure was built in 1906, and is one of the oldest churches in the region. Daily Masses are held in both Spanish and English.

The Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is an international research-based and non-profit organization specializing in research, education and archiving information related to Capsicum or chile peppers. The institute was established in 1992 and is devoted to research and educating the world about chile peppers. Its research facility is named for Fabián García, a Mexican-American horticulturalist dubbed "the father of the U.S. chile pepper industry", who began standardizing varieties of chile pepper in 1888.