Editing Guadalupe County, New Mexico (section)

==History==
Guadalupe County was named after ''Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe'' ([[Our Lady of Guadalupe]]) or after the ''Mesita de Guadalupe'' (Guadalupe Plain). The county was created from the southern portion of [[San Miguel County, New Mexico|San Miguel County]] February 26, 1891, by an act of the [[New Mexico Territory|New Mexico Territorial]] Legislature. The original county seat was [[Puerto De Luna]], but was moved north to [[Santa Rosa, New Mexico|Santa Rosa]] in 1903. That same year, after the popular [[Spanish–American War]] of 1898, the county's name was changed to [[Leonard Wood]] County after the Presidential physician, Major-General in the [[Rough Riders]], and recipient of the [[Medal of Honor]]. The name was later changed back to Guadalupe County.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bowden|first=J. J.|title=Guadalupe County|url=http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=675|publisher=Office of the State Historian|access-date=December 16, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320110014/http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=675|archive-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref> The County contains whole, or parts of, several previous [[Spanish land grants in New Mexico|Spanish land grants]] to include the Aqua Negra, the Jose Perea, the Anton Chico, and the Preston Beck land grants.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guadalupe Co. History|url=http://guadalupe.nmgenweb.us/Cohistry.htm|publisher=The New Mexico GenWeb Project|access-date=December 16, 2011}}</ref>