Editing Jemez Springs, New Mexico (section)

==History==
[[File:Soda Dam on Jemez Creek.jpg|thumb|left|Soda Dam on Jemez Creek, north of Jemez Springs]]
The Jemez Valley is thought to have been inhabited for the last 4500 years. The Spaniards who visited the area beginning in 1540 reported multiple Native American [[pueblo]]s (villages), in the valley. The [[Franciscan]] mission church [[Jemez State Monument|San José de los Jemez]] was built just to the north of the current village in 1621 but was abandoned around the 1640s. Today the ruins are the site of [[Jemez State Monument]]. Following the [[Pueblo Revolt]] the [[Puebloan peoples|Jemez people]] began converging at the current [[Pueblo of Jemez]]. In the nineteenth century the valley was given over to mostly agrarian and pastoral uses.<ref name="jzs">{{cite web|url=http://www.jemezsprings.org/history.html |title=Jemez History |publisher=Jemezsprings.org |access-date=June 8, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216133755/http://www.jemezsprings.org/history.html |archive-date=February 16, 2010 }}</ref>

Jemez Springs' post office opened in 1907. The village is named for the [[Pueblo of Jemez]] twelve miles to the south.<ref name="placenames">{{cite book|others=Ina Sizer Cassidy, Helen S. Pearce|title=New Mexico Place Names - A geographical dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/newmexicoplacena00pear|url-access=registration|editor=T.M. Pearce|publisher=The University of New Mexico Press|location=Albuquerque|year=1965|edition=third}}</ref>{{Rp|76}} The 1907 post office was preceded by one established in 1884 named ''Archuleta''. The village's current main [[Public bathing|bathhouse]] originates from this period.

In 1942, Jemez Springs was the second choice (after [[Oak City, Utah]]) for the location of the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], the proposed [[Manhattan Project]] research laboratory, but [[Los Alamos, New Mexico|Los Alamos]] was chosen instead.

In 1947 two [[Roman Catholic]] retreats were founded nearby, the [[Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete]] and the Handmaids of the Precious Blood. The village was incorporated on December 5, 1955.<ref name="jzs" /> Following enthusiasm from supporters of [[Kyozan Joshu Sasaki]], the Bodhi Manda Zen Center was founded in 1972.<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/us/09zen.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5087&em&en=5fa1ab7fdf22bde9&ex=1197349200|title=A Very Old Zen Master and His Art of Tough Love|last=Blumenthal|first=Ralph|date=December 9, 2007|newspaper=New York Times|access-date=June 9, 2009}}</ref>