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San José de los Jémez Mission and Gíusewa Pueblo Site

San José de los Jémez Mission and Gíusewa Pueblo Site San José de los Jémez Mission and Gíusewa Pueblo Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Jemez Historic Site (formerly Jemez State Monument) is a state-operated historic site on New Mexico State Road 4 in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. The site preserves the archaeological remains of the 16th-century Native American Gíusewa Pueblo and the 17th-century Spanish colonial mission called San José de los Jémez. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and in 2012 it was designated as a National Historic Landmark. It is considered an ancestral site of the Jemez Pueblo people who live nearby. Read more on Wikipedia

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