EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS
(The Ranch Of The Swallows)
Photos
Below is an extremely small taste of the many historical buildings and items at the Ranch. To show all of what's available would require quite a few large pages.
In the late 1800's, a school system was established in northern New Mexico. Although originally built as a two-room home in Raton in 1878, it was converted to the first Raton schoolhouse in 1880 when the railroad came through. It was moved to the Ranch in 1980.
The classroom portion of the home. The schedule of instruction in 1885 was: 8:00 - 9:00 Reading, 9:00 - 10:00; Studies from Memory; 10:00 - 11:00 Morality; 11:00 - 1:00 Lunch; 1:00 - 2:00 Writing; 2:00 - 3:00 Arithmetic; 3:00 - 4:00 Lessons from the reading.
The teacher's desk. Notice the quill pens, the bell, and the switches. Rules for teachers in 1872 were: 1. Teachers each day will fill lamps and clean chimneys; 2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session; 3. Make your pens carefully (you may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils); 4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly; 5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books; 6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed; 7. Each teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society; 8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty; 9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
The actual pictures of some of the Presidents as they were displayed, books, a clock, and a dunce cap.
Some of the students' desks with their own personal chalk boards.
The residential portion of the schoolhouse.
Betty Sherred gives an explanation of the dying procedures at the Tapeste de Teñir, the Dye Shed, which is used to color all of the wool products at the Ranch.
La Casa De Madrid, the Madrid House, was built in 1978 by 20th Century Fox for the filming of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; the Early Years. The back of the house was not completed because none of the filming was done there.
El Molino Grande De Sapelló, the Big Mill from Sapelló, made flour for the soldiers at Ft. Union until the fort closed in 1891. Its machinery was manufactured in Buffalo, New York, and shipped over the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico in the 1870's. After turning the wheel, the water flows into a small rio, river. When the mill is not in use, the water is diverted into the laguna, shown immediately below.
The Laguna, Mill Pond, contained dragonflies and large bullfrog tadpoles in July. Notice the water draining into the pond from the aqueduct above the pond.
Inside the Casa De La Abuelita, Grandmother's House. Notice the spinning wheel.
Off in the distance on the hill, behind the well in the foreground, is the Oratorio De San Ysidro, Saint Isidore Chapel.
This Casa Del Pastor, Sheepherder's Cabin, was originally built in southern Colorado.
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call (505) 471-2261, fax (505) 471-5623, e-mail or check their web site
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