Hazel Lathrop – Tijeras Canyon – Five Miles of Road and Hundreds of Stories

Date:

January 24, 2026

Time:

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Tijeras Canyon with Tijeras at the east end and Carnuel at the west end has been an important community for hundreds of years. Communities thrive because of the people who live and work there. This talk focuses on those people and their stories in a time frame of 1900 to 1950.

Wheels Museum
1100 2nd St SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone: (505) 243-6269
Admission is Free, but donations are gladly accepted.

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Please contact Paulette Miller, Director of Development, who is graciously supporting the project and has volunteered to orchestrate this work. Please send a check for $100.00 per name along with dates of birth or death and the job held to WHEELS Museum, PO Box 95438 Albuquerque, NM 97199. Please call (505) 243-6269 for more information.