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Taos County Information One of the original nine counties formed in 1852 The county seat is Taos Cities and Towns Amalia Arroyo Hondo Arroyo Seco Carson Cerro Chamisa Costilla El Prado El Rito Las Trampas Llano Ojo Caliente Ojo Sarco Peñasco Picuris Pueblo Questa Ranchos de Taos Red River Rio Lucio Taos Taos Pueblo Taos Ski Valley Vadito	This Taos County, NM County Genealogy Trails website is available for adoption. If you are interested in hosting this county website, or any other site for us, view our Volunteer Information page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage-making skills are required) Help this site grow by submitting YOUR families' data. Contact Andrew to submit your ancestors' data for inclusion on this website. Taos was established following the Spanish conquest of the Pueblo villages. During the 1770s Taos was repeatedly raided by Comanches who at that time lived in the plains of what is now eastern Colorado. Juan Bautista de Anza, governor of the Province of New Mexico, led a successful punitive expedition in 1779 against the Comanches. After the U.S. takeover of New Mexico in 1846, Hispanics and Amerindians in Taos staged a mini-rebellion, known as the Taos Revolt, in which the newly appointed U.S. Governor, Charles Bent, was lynched. Beginning in 1898, artists began to settle in Taos and created the "Taos Society of Artists". In time the Taos art colony developed. Many paintings were made of local scenes, especially of Taos Pueblo and activities there Home of Kit Carson Long single story adobe structure with plastered walls, roofed porch and wood beams, built in 1858. Taos, New Mexico
Surrounding Counties Rio Arriba Mora Colfax Costilla Co, CO Conejos Co, CO Return to the New Mexico State Site Visit our National Site	Online Data [Coming Soon!] Births Deaths Marriages Biographies Cemeteries Census Data Military Data Obituaries Newspaper Stories History Subscribe to our Southwest Mailing List to be advised of website updates Gravemarker of Christopher (Kit) Carson reads: "Kit Carson Died May TH/23 1868 Aged 59 Years." with dried wreath and flags, Taos, New Mexico. Wood fence with sign reads: "Notice Any One Defacing This Stone Will Be Prosecuted To The Extreme Extent., G. S."
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