Las Trampas Church (San José de Gracia)

One belfry at San José de Gracia stands empty. The "death" bell — tolled when someone in Las Trampas died — was stolen sometime in the 1930s and hasn't come back. The church itself has endured: built between 1760 and 1776 by the village's founding families, its adobe walls run as much as six feet thick. Parishioners still re-mud them. The agricultural cycle is still observed here with religious ceremony. It is, the historic marker says, the community's center — and it still is.