Vega y Coca Sisters

Their father, Miguel Vega y Coca, was the first landholder of record at La Cienega, a soldier who had come north with Diego de Vargas, and the National Register's history of the valley's acequias counts seven daughters, not the panel's six, all but one of whom stayed on with their husbands. One of them, María, lived with her husband Diego Manuel Baca at the ranch later called Las Golondrinas, and the property passed down the Baca line. Tall weeds have hidden the panel's lower lines in every photograph found so far.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palace of the Governors — 14 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 — 18 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 — 24 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 — 25 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

• Doña Rosa Bustamante (1735-1814) — steps away
• Golondrinas Old Cienega Village Museum — 1.6 mi
• Sisters of Charity — 2.7 mi
• Three Wise Women — 2.7 mi