The Jemez Valley is thought to have been inhabited for the last 4500 years.
The Spaniards who visited the area beginning in 1540 reported multiple Native
American pueblos (villages), in the valley. The Franciscan mission church San
José de los Jemez was built just to the north of the current village in 1621
but was abandoned around the 1640s. Today the ruins are the site of Jemez State
Monument. Following the Pueblo Revolt the Jemez people began converging at the
current Pueblo of Jemez. In the nineteenth century the valley was given over to
mostly agrarian and pastoral uses.
Jemez Springs' post office opened
