San Isidro Catholic Church

The panel will say only that the church is nineteenth century, and with reason: its dates disagree. Parishioners and two 2017 legislative memorials put the building in 1835, on land a Gallegos ancestor deeded for the church and its cemetery. A text in the State Historian's files says it was raised in 1868 from salvaged materials after a flood took an earlier church. Each May 15 the feast ends at the river, where a procession carries the saint's banner to the San Ysidro Crossing for a blessing. The panel's last line misprints Camino Real as Rael.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palace of the Governors — 4.6 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.
• 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.
• Pecos National Historical Park — 20 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.
• Fuller Lodge — 23 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

• Agua Fria — 0.5 mi
• Santa Fe — 1.5 mi
• Katherine Stinson Otero — 3.7 mi
• Inez Bushner Gill (1918-1982) and Maralyn Budke (1936-2010) — 4.4 mi