New Mexico Office of the State Historian : Chaperito

Photography by Fritiz Broeske, Church near Chaperito, New Mexico, negative # 119863. Courtesy of the Palace of the Governors, Fray Angelico Chavez History Library.

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Chaperito

Chaperito had a Post Office from 1875 intermittingly until 1957 at which time mail was sent to Las Vegas. It was once a major junction on routes along the Gallinas River but Chaperito is now a place of just a few residents.

Robert Julyan
The Place Names of New Mexico
2nd. ed., University of New Mexico Press, 1998