Doña Ana Village

ABOUT US

DAVHPC is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to preserve the cultural heritage of the Village of Doña Ana, New Mexico. Through historic preservation and maintenance of historic properties, we strive to educate local youth on the history of our community while at the same time using historic preservation as an engine to promote education, community service, economic development, and social responsibility. Preserving our history to ensure a bright future.

OUR HISTORY 

DAVHPC began as a grassroots organization of concerned community members in the 1970s that originally operated under the sponsorship of other nonprofit organizations. These community members worked tirelessly to save the historic Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria church which has been the center of village life since 1844. As more people became involved, work began to not only save the beautiful architecture of the historic church but also the historic adobe buildings located directly on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a National Historic Trail. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the lifeline from Mexico City, Mexico to Santa Fe, New Mexico during New Mexico’s colonial period. DAVHPC (in all its grassroots committee forms) has partnered with the Historic Preservation Education Foundation, National Park Service (NPS), Cornerstones Community Partnerships, the Architecture and Planning Department of the University of New Mexico, Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia (INAH), Mesilla Valley Historic Preservation, Inc., Pat Taylor, Inc., and others over the past 40 years. The Doña Ana Village Historic District is registered with the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places and NPS officially recognizes Doña Ana as an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional rural 19th century Hispano village of southern New Mexico. NPS also recognizes the section of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro through Doña Ana as the most significant section of the trail left in the United States. This distinction has helped us protect historic properties in Doña Ana. In 2018, DAVHPC completed paperwork to become an official IRS recognized 501(c)(3). Over the past few years, we have also been able to partner with the New Mexico Corrections Department so that persons on probation or parole and under the supervision of the district drug court have opportunities to perform community service on public spaces in Doña Ana. Currently, we are partnering with Las Cruces Public Schools and individual Elementary schools to offer exploratory learning field trips with heavy emphasis on history and the arts.

CONTACT: DeAngelo Nieves
(702) 752-1894

donaanavillagehpc@gmail.com

P.O. Box 1062
Doña Ana, New Mexico 88032 

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