Alameda

Two years after the Tiwa of Alameda were moved to Isleta, their country was granted away. In 1710 Corporal Francisco Montes Vigil received the Alameda grant, more than 100,000 acres west of the river, as a soldier of the reconquest. He could not settle it as Spanish law required and in 1712 sold it to Captain Juan González Bas, and the grant became the root of title for what is now Corrales. One González family tract there was farmed from 1712 until the village bought a conservation easement on it in 2008.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Alameda This 18th century Spanish settlement was established on the site of an ancient Tiwa Indian Pueblo that was destroyed following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The pueblo was reestablished in 1702, but in 1708 the Spanish moved its Tiwa inhabitants to help resettle the Pueblo of Isleta. Here the Camino Real passed by cottonwood groves from which the community derived it's name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroglyph National Monument — 9.1 mi
  Some 24,000 images pecked into the dark basalt of Albuquerque's West Mesa, protected in 1990 and then crossed by a city boulevard.

More markers nearby

• Corrales — 1.0 mi
• Iglesia de San Ysidro — 1.8 mi
• Tiguex Province — 4.3 mi
• Dulcelina Salce Curtis (1904-1995) — 4.3 mi