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Photo Gallery
Newsletters
Remembering Winter with photos – SCHS New Archive Storage Unit
100 Years Ago – Announcement: Next SCHS
Armendaris Tour
In Rememberance – 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco and Socorro – Excavations at Tzelaqui/Sevilleta Pueblo –
Valverde/Armandaris Tour photos – The "Maggie Line"
Francis Senn – Oktoberfest photos – SCHS 2017 Plans – Confederate Gold in Socorro
County? – Researching
Valverde – Historical Mysteries – Elephant Butte Centennial
0824/23a
The legacy of Oktoberfest – Octoberfest Itinerary – Hammel Brewery Roof Repair –
Deadliest Hurricane in U.S. History
– SCHS Happenings: new Board member and
new projects – Photos Oktoberfest food service area and the archive "vault."
Hammel Cleanup Day photos – Post Card from the Past – Finding the First Americans
Brief History of the Hammel
Brewery – Brief History of the Golden Crown Mill –
D&RGW Engine No. 496 Found
SCHS NEWSLETTERS
1918-2018 100 years ago • Rosie the Riveter • Socorro, the "Gem City" • Hammel Bros. Beer in the Movies
• Hattie's Sinkhole • Socorro Towns Destroyed (1937-38 floods) • The 1918 Spanish Influenza • New Mayan Cities Discovered •
Remembering the USS Pueblo • San Marcial Roundhouse
2018 Annual Meeting • San Marcial Special • San Marcial Solitary Grave of Mary A. Featherston • San Marcial:
Railroad Town (includes photos of the roundhouse ruins) • The Great San Marcial Bank Robbery 1892
2018 Oktoberfest agenda • The Hammels and Oktoberfest (the tradition of Oktober-fest in Socorro) • Some
modern day ghost towns
2018 Oktoberfest report and photos • Rosedale Special • Rosedale Gold - history of Rosedale and the Rosedale
mine and mill • The Quest for Maise (early corn in New Mexico) • The "Maggie Line," "Chili Line," and Green Bean Casserole.
Rosedale Special • Rosedale Gold Part 2 - Last days of the Rosedale mine and mill • In
Remembrance: Holm Bursum III • Winter on the Railroad • The Mesa Verde of Oman
2019 Annual Meeting • Auto Tour of San Marcial • 1919: 100 Years Ago • Windsor Hotel Burns 1905 • Val Verde Hotel
Opens 1919 • 1000s of Artifacts Looted • Tattooing in the Pueblos • Southern Pacific Engine #18 Failure
Oktoberfest 2019 • In Remembrance: Harold "Hal" Quinn • The Piros visit Socorro
Those Spanish Galleons • San
Marcial Guided Auto Tour • New photos of San Marcial rail yards • Smithsonian Trinitite • MAD: End of the era
Society News & Dues • Chester Potter: Railroad Agent and Vigilante • Captain Jack Crawford: A Brief Biography
• Leo's Conoco Service Station - an historic gas station • San Acacia 1929 flood photos from Corky Herkenhoff
Society Covid-19 Updates • Post Cards from Socorro: historic look at Socorro through post cards • New
Book: The French In New Mexico • Lost Civilizations: Why some ancient cities were suddenly abandoned • Do You Remember? ... these
once popular businesses now gone
"Cry Macho" movie reviewed (filmed in Polvadera) • Drought exposes hidden history around the globe • Boots on the
ground history in Socorro County (photo gallery) • Face of Neolithic Man • Deadly gardening • Chaco Canyon wood