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The Best Attractions In Columbus

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Columbus is a village in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, about 3 miles north of the Mexican border. It is considered a place of historical interest, as the scene of the attack in 1916 by Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco Pancho Villa, that caused America to send 10,000 troops there in the punitive Mexican Expedition. The population was 1,664 at the 2010 census.
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  • 1. City of Rocks State Park Deming
    City of Rocks State Park is a state park of New Mexico, United States, consisting of large sculptured rock formations in the shape of pinnacles or boulders rising as high as 40 feet .
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  • 2. Deming Luna Mimbres Museum Deming
    Deming is a city located in Luna County, New Mexico, United States, 60 miles west of Las Cruces and thirty-three miles north of the Mexican border. The population was 14,855 according to the 2010 census. Deming is the county seat and principal community of Luna County.
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  • 3. Silver City Museum Silver City
    Silver City is a town in Grant County, New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat and the home of Western New Mexico University. As of the 2010 census the population was 10,315. In 2015 the population was estimated to be 10,004.
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  • 4. St. Clair Winery & Vineyard Deming
    St. Clair Winery is an American winery in Deming, New Mexico, founded in 1984. It is New Mexico's largest winery and is located in the Mimbres Valley in Luna County. The winery's vineyards are located 50 miles west of Deming, New Mexico, just east of Lordsburg, New Mexico. It is the largest yielding vineyard in New Mexico and covers 180 acres. The company is owned and operated by the Lescombes family, who have been in the wine industry for six generations, and have made wine across three continents St. Clair is also known for its chile-infused wine, Hatch Chile Wines, made with Hatch peppers, for which it was awarded a US$50,000 US Federal grant for value-added agricultural products.Besides the winery and tasting room in Deming, St. Clair has bistros in Albuquerque, Farmington, and Las Cru...
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  • 5. Big Ditch Park Silver City
    Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is an American national park that conserves an area of large sand dunes up to 750 feet tall on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley, and an adjacent national preserve located in the Sangre de Cristo Range, in south-central Colorado, United States. The park was originally designated Great Sand Dunes National Monument on March 17, 1932 by President Herbert Hoover. The original boundaries protected an area of 35,528 acres . A boundary change and redesignation as a national park and preserve was authorized on November 22, 2000 and then established by an act of Congress on September 24, 2004. The park encompasses 107,342 acres while the preserve protects an additional 41,686 acres for a total of 149,028 acres . The recreational visitor total was 48...
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  • 6. Pancho Villa State Park Columbus New Mexico
    The Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong is a National Historic Landmark District commemorating the 1916 raid by Pancho Villa on the town of Columbus, New Mexico, and the American military response to that raid, the Punitive Expedition led by General John J. Pershing. The raid and its response, set during World War I, the Mexican Revolution, and an accompanying low-level Border War, played a significant role in diplomacy and military preparedness for eventual American entry in the World War. The district encompasses buildings which survived the raid, and military facilities used in the American response. The landmark designation was made in 1975.
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  • 7. Aguirre Spring Campground Organ
    The Organ Mountains are a rugged mountain range in southern New Mexico in the Southwestern United States. Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument was declared a national monument on May 21, 2014. They lie 10 miles east of the city of Las Cruces, in Doña Ana County.
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  • 8. Columbus Depot Museum Columbus New Mexico
    Fort Jay is a coastal star fort and the name of a former United States Army post on Governors Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. Fort Jay is the oldest existing defensive structure on the island, and was named for John Jay, a member of the Federalist Party, New York governor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, and one of the founding fathers of the United States. It was built in 1794 to defend Upper New York Bay, but has served other purposes. From 1806 to 1904 it was named Fort Columbus, presumably for explorer Christopher Columbus. Today, the National Park Service administers Fort Jay and Castle Williams as the Governors Island National Monument.
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