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El Camposanto de la Sagrada Familia

Also known as Old Picacho Cemetery

Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA

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Get directions Doña Ana County, New Mexico, 88007 USA

Coordinates: 32.32625, -106.85398
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The El Camposanto de la Sagrada Familia (The Cemetery of the Holy Family) was initiated by the Evangelisto Chavez family before 1860 when they set aside some of their own property for community burials. Burials began in 1860 and ended in 1949. Since then, the cemetery records have gone missing. Only two formal headstones remain. Other burials are marked by rocks and rock mounds. Church records and death certificates were used to identify the names of individuals interred here. A metal plaque gives the cemetery's history and lists the names of the individuals that were identified.

Members of the Doña Ana County Historical Society and the Doña Ana County Genealogical Society, along with many others, worked to save this abandoned cemetery whose existence speaks to the fortitude and resilience of early settlers in the Mesilla Valley.

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