Name: Beat the Heat! Ride to Old Mesilla for Breakfast
Start: 2024-07-20T07:30:00-06:00
Location: Circle K

Beat the Heat! Ride to Old Mesilla for Breakfast

Beat the heat and ride to Andale’s in Old Mesilla for breakfast
Meet @ 0730, KSU @ 0800
Meet at the Circle K US54 & loop 375 in front of Lowes
It was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 that attracted early settlers to Mesilla and thus began populating the town. It was established as a colony by the early 1850s, around the time that the United States and Mexico settled the boundary dispute that arose from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The settlement, known as the Gadsden Purchase, was effectuated on November 16, 1854 in Mesilla by taking down the Mexican flag and raising the United States flag.
In late July 1861, 300 Texas troops led by Confederate Col. John Baylor captured Fort Fillmore, just outside of Mesilla. After defeating the Union troops Baylor named the town of Mesilla as the capital of the new Confederate Territory of Arizona. The Civil War ended in Mesilla in 1862 after Colonel Baylor and the confederate troops retreated to Texas. By the 1870s Mesilla was in her prime and there were several stores, doctors, lawyers, carpenter shops as well as other establishments. However, the hustle and bustle of Mesilla not only attracted businessmen and commerce, it also attracted outlaws like Billy the Kid. It was in Mesilla that the Kid was tried and sentenced to death by hanging in 1881.
Route: US 54 north, left on MLK, left on 404, right on 478, left on university, right on Hwy 28 to Andale’s