LA MESA

From left to right: Chopes Bar, Mexican/American cooking; 3 cloud photos from the La Mesa area; and, at right, the La Mesa Post Office.

La Mesa is on NM 28, 12 miles south of Las Cruces. It was settled after 1854, and may have been named for a nearby lava flow, Black Mesa. It has had a post office since 1880--mail for nearby Vado is handled in La Mesa.

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