We all picture the casinos and nightlife when we hear Las Vegas
said out loud. But this image is not always true. Very few people think
about a small sleepy town somewhere between Walsenburg and Santa Fe
when Las Vegas comes to the conversation. Believe it or not, but this
town was established 70
years earlier than its more famous sister town in Nevada. I am taking of
Las Vegas,
New Mexico. The history of this town starts in 1835 when the group of
settlers received a land grant from the Mexican government and laid out
the town in the traditional Spanish Colonial style, with a central plaza
surrounded by buildings.
