Palace of the Governors

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Stock #:258432
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Santa Fe
State: New Mexico (NM)
County: Santa Fe
Publisher: Detroit Publishing Co.
Postmark: 1934 Oct-6
Postmark City: Santa Fe
Postmark State: NM
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Miss Dorothy Ayes
4449 Stuart
Denver, Colo

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The Palace of the Governors was built in 1609, in the reign of Philip III of Spain, by Don Pedro de Peralta, Governor and Captain-General of the "Kingdom and Provinces of New Mexico". Besieged and abandoned during the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, it was retaken by the Spaniards under De Vargas in 1692 and finally captured by Gen. Stephen W. Kearney in 1847. Here Lew Wallace wrote much of his famous book "Ben Hur"

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