William Wal­lace Mills, El Paso pio­neer, sec­ond son of James P. and Sarah (Ken­wor­thy) Mills, was born at Thorn­town, Indi­ana, on Feb­ru­ary 10, 1836. He received his early school­ing there, and although he later was appointed to West Point, he never attended. In Decem­ber 1858 he fol­lowed his brother Anson Mills to the town of […]

Upper Val­ley pio­neer was respon­si­ble for the loca­tion of the El Paso Coun­try Club and the design of the stained-glass dome at the Camino Real hotel.

The largest urban wilder­ness in the world, the 25,000-acre park fea­tures hik­ing and bik­ing trails, bird watch­ing, climb­ing, spelunk­ing, camp­sites and more.

Anson Mills, sur­veyor, builder, army offi­cer, engi­neer, Amer­i­can bound­ary com­mis­sioner, diplo­mat, and inven­tor, was born at Thorn­town, Indi­ana, on August 31, 1834, the son of James P. and Sarah (Ken­wor­thy) Mills. He attended school in Indi­ana and New York and accepted an appoint­ment to the United States Mil­i­tary Acad­emy in 1855.

Ben­jamin Franklin Coons, mer­chant, was born in St. Louis, Mis­souri, in 1826, the son of David and Mary Coons. He led wagon trains to Santa Fe in 1846, 1847, and 1848, and by Sep­tem­ber 1848 had estab­lished him­self as a mer­chant in El Paso del Norte and else­where in Chihuahua.

William Deane Hawkins (April 18, 1914–November 21, 1943) was a United States Marine Corps offi­cer who was posthu­mously awarded the United States’ high­est mil­i­tary honor — the Medal of Honor — for heroic actions and sac­ri­fice of life dur­ing the World War II Bat­tle of Tarawa.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, con­secte­tur adip­isc­ing elit. Etiam non felis eu lorem male­suada adip­isc­ing eleifend in lec­tus. Proin sed feu­giat velit. Duis nec nisi metus. Cur­abitur feu­giat turpis quis ante sus­cipit at auc­tor odio biben­dum. Prae­sent ele­men­tum sem fau­cibus mi sem­per rhon­cus. Donec ac mau­ris vitae libero laoreet vene­natis quis ut massa.
This is Head­ing 1
This is […]