isletta

Updated: May 12, 2025

A large number of ancient many-storied, many chambered communal houses are scattered over New Mexico, three of the most important of which are Isletta, Laguna and Acoma. Isletta and Laguna are within a stone's throw of the railroad, ten miles and sixty-six miles, respectively, beyond Albuquerque, and Acoma is reached from either Laguna or Bubero by a drive of a dozen miles.

James Cox - My Native Land: The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People;: with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions,: Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the: Instruction of the Young

All lights that can be seen from the sea are ordered extinguished at night, though the lighthouse on Isletta is still lighted. The U. S. S. Yankee, off the Isle of Pines, captured and destroyed the Spanish sloops Nemesia, of Batabano, Amistad and Manuelita, of Coloma, and the pilot-boats Luz and Jacinto. June 28.

James Otis - The Boys of '98