Pueblo of Tesuque

On August 8, 1680, two young Tesuque men, Nicolás Catua and Pedro Omtua, set out with knotted cords counting down the days to the rising. Spanish officials caught them the next day and tortured them for the plan. Hearing of the arrest, Tesuque sent its own runners to start the revolt a day early, and on the morning of August 10 its people killed Fray Juan Pío, who had come to say mass. In 2018 Santa Fe accepted the pueblo's gift of a bronze of the two runners, and a downtown courtyard carries their names.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Pueblo of Tesuque The name Tesuque is a Spanish variation of the Tewa name Tetsugeh, meaning "narrow place of cottonwood trees." The small Tewaspeaking pueblo of Tesuque was established before 1200, and was first visited by Europeans in 1591. It is one of the most traditional of the Tewa speaking pueblos and played an important role in the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, which drove the Spanish from New Mexico.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palace of the Governors — 9.8 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.
• El Santuario de Chimayó — 12 mi
  A small adobe shrine on the High Road to Taos, built around 1816 over earth that pilgrims still carry away in hope of healing.
• Bandelier National Monument — 17 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.
• Fuller Lodge — 18 mi
  The upright-log dining hall of a boys' ranch school, which fed and housed the Manhattan Project after the Army bought the school in 1942.

More markers nearby

• Tesuque Rain Gods — steps away
• Feliciana Tapia Viarrial (1904-1988) — 4.3 mi
• The St. Francis Women's Club — 5.7 mi
• Santa Fe Opera — 6.2 mi