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Behind the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe — the oldest state capital in the United States, founded in 1610 — the New Mexico History Museum traces the layered story of a place that passed through indigenous, Spanish, Mexican, and American hands before becoming a state in 1912. That compressed, contested history is the reason to go.
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