South Ward School (Las Cruces, N.M.) cornerstone collection, 1884-1935.
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Rio Grande Historical Collections
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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...
South Ward School (Las Cruces, N.M.)
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Originally built in 1893, the South Ward School became affiliated with Las Cruces School District No. 2, which was created in 1934 after the city consolidated different schools and districts. The South Ward School, at the corner of Amador and Alameda, was torn down and converted into school administrative offices in 1957. The South Ward Elementary school became the building for the first classroom of the Las Cruces College, which became New Mexico State University. From the descripti...
Las Cruces School District No. 2 (Las Cruces, N.M.)
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