Marker Erected by: New Mexico Official Scenic Historic Marker
Location of Marker: US-550, N. of Cuba.
County of Marker: Sandoval County.
Marker Text:
CUBA
In 1769, Governor Pedro Fermin de Mendinueta made the San Joaquin del Nacimiento land grants to 35 pioneering families who had settled the headwaters of the Rio Puerco in 1766. The community was later abandoned, owing to raids by frontier Indian tribes, but was resettled in the late 1870's. Originally known as Nacimiento or La Laguna, it was renamed Cuba when the post office was established in 1887.