Anthony Traditional Cache

This is a series of geocaches to commemorate our Great State of New Mexico.  All of the geocaches are named for settlements that once thrived in Dona Ana county but some of them are now nothing more than footnotes in our history.  They have all played an important role in the settling and growth of our county and some of them are still active communities, rich with culture, architecture, and historic buildings.
 

On US 80 and 85, 20 mi N of EI Paso; in the heart of the cotton-growing area of the Mesilla Valley along the Texas border. When the AT & SF RR built its line in 1881, the station was placed on the Texas side and named La Tuna. Prior to that the stagecoach station was called Alamillias.   A Spanish American woman named Sabrina had a chapel on the NM side dedicated to San Antonio, and when a town was started she rejected the name La Tuna and insisted upon Anthony. Previously the location on the NM side was called Half Way, after the hotel owned by Fletcher Jackson, later called Linden and later still, Brunswick House. Another version states that a Catholic priest came through the mountain pass to establish a church here and found that the outline of a face on the mountain was called st. Anthony's Nose. There is a promontory on the Hudson River named Anthony's Nose, but commemorating the nose of Anthony D. Hooges. Post Office 1884 - . There is also a part of the town that is Anthony, Texas which is served by the same post office in Anthony, NM  but with a different zip code.