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Otowi Historic District

Historic district in New Mexico, United States

Summary

Historic district in New Mexico, United States

Field	Value
name	Otowi Historic District
nrhp_type	hd	nocat = yes
designated_other1	New Mexico
designated_other1_date	August 20, 1973
designated_other1_number	295
designated_other1_num_position	bottom
image	Buildings at Otowi Crossing, Otowi NM.jpg
caption	Buildings at Otowi Crossing
nearest_city	Santa Fe, New Mexico
coordinates
locmapin	New Mexico#USA
built
builder	Union Bridge Company
added	December 4, 1975
area	29 acre
refnum	75001170

The Otowi Historic District is a 29 acre historic district in northern Santa Fe County, New Mexico, having four contributing buildings and three contributing structures including Otowi Suspension Bridge and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

Otowi (Tewa, p'otsuivi, "gap where water sinks") is a place on the west bank of the Rio Grande at the head of White Rock Canyon. Established in 1886 with the name White Rock Cañon, it was little more than a stop (with a salvaged boxcar for a station building) and a river crossing on the D&RGW's Santa Fe Branch, the narrow-gauge railroad popularly known as the Chili Line.

Española]], due to limited loading on the suspension bridge).

This place is the setting for Peggy Pond Church's historical memoir, The House at Otowi Bridge, (1959) which chronicles the life of Edith Warner from 1921 to 1951. She was postmistress and shopkeeper in the early years, and later the hostess of tearooms which became popular with scientists from the Manhattan Project.

References

{{NRISref
Pearce, T.M., editor, ''New Mexico Place Names, A Geographical Dictionary'', University of New Mexico Press 1965. {{ISBN. 0-8263-0082-0
"OTOWI - New Mexico Ghost Town".
Snyder, Sharon. "History in the Writings of Peggy Pond Church".

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