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Article: REFLECTION: AGUA FRIA VILLAGE'S SUPPORTING ROLE.(Editorials)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Byline: WILLIAM HENRY MEE
By William Henry Mee
Agua Fria Village has lived in the "shadow" of the City of Santa Fe for years. However, without this tiny community, the city might not have prospered to the point it has today.
Before 1950, almost every stick of wood that kept Santa Feans warm or every ear of corn that kept Santa Feans fed came off of the backs of an Agua Fria burro or wagon. The land for the three major electric lines and the gas line entering Santa Fe; the major roads of Rodeo, Cerrillos, Rufina, Agua Fria, West Alameda, and N.M. 599; the sewer lines of Cerrillos, Rufina, Agua Fria and Santa Fe River North -- were "donated" by ...