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Date First Settled: April 20, 1887 Purchased: 1885
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Corrales Basin, Chihuahua, Mexico
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Located: 30 miles southwest of Colonia Juárez in the valley of Corrales Basin high in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
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Altitude of nearly 7,000 feet
Corrales Basin is two miles south; Cave Valley is six miles north.
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Name sake: General Romualdo Pacheco, Mormon benefactor and Governor of Chihuahua
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1857 Pacheco was elected to the California State Senate; brigadier general, with command of the First Brigade of California's "Native Cavalry."; In 1875 became Governor of California; 1876 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Date: April 20, 1887
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The first LDS settlers arrived at Corralles Basin, Chihuahua where Colonia Pacheco was subsequently founded.
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Branch Organized:
Br. Pres. Jesse N. Smith
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Date: 1890, fall
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Branch of Colonia Juárez Ward
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First Bishopric: Jesse N. Smith, Jr.
1st coun. James Sellers
2nd coun. Christopher B. Heaton
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Date: Feb 12, 1891
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Notes: appointed by Moses Thatcher
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Laura Ann Hardy Meacham |
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Relief Society President
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Sarah Ann Wood Lunt
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Economy: lots of timber, stock raising, apples, strawberries, blackberries, sorghum cane, corn, oats
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Early Settlers:
John Thomas Whetten
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Date: 1890 Spring
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Firsts: surveyed land into 3 and 1/2 acres parcels
Firsts: water conveyed from the river onto the land
Schoolhouse built
Meetinghouse
Firsts: Franklin Scott built the first house
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Date: 1887
Date: 1890, spring
Date: 1908
Date: 1890
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Cost of $12,000.
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Date: Oct 7, 1894
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Hyrum Naegle was terribly mangled by a bear near Colonia Pacheco. He died shortly afterwards
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Date: 1892 Fall
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Sister Karen Thompson and her son were killed and another son was wounded by Apache Indians
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Date: Oct. 7, 1894
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Elder John Rowley died at Colonia Pacheco.
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Date: Nov 12, 1895
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Christopher B. Heaton was shot and killed while attempting to capture thieves near Colonia Pacheco.
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Date: 1912 August 27
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Joshua Stevens was killed by Mexican rebels while defending his daughters at Colonia Pacheco.
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General Romualdo Pacheco
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