Happy Birthday, New Mexico!
In case you didn’t know the day of New Mexico’s official joining, it is January 6th.
The road to statehood was a difficult one though that required purchase treaties, presidential nominations and many decisions being discussed by the United States Congress.
Before it’s official naming, the area we call home was known as U.S. New Mexico territory, following the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848.
It then took 64 years of settlers homesteading in the area for Congress to decide to make the territory part of the United States of America’s.
Finally, on January 6, 1912, New Mexico became the 47th state, followed closely by Arizona, who became 48th on February 14 of the same year.
Both states hold much history for what has become the Southwestern United States, despite being the 4th to last state to join the country!
It has proudly been part of the United States now for 107 years, as the Land of Enchantment, and a place we are blessed to call home!
