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*In December 1905, Ernst A. Tietjen finished homesteading his land obtaining clear title to the [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=NM0320__.199&docClass=STA&sid=n0vackpt.pq2#patentDetailsTabIndex=1 northeast quarter of section 22, Township 12 west, Range 11 north]. <ref> | *In December 1905, Ernst A. Tietjen finished homesteading his land obtaining clear title to the [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=NM0320__.199&docClass=STA&sid=n0vackpt.pq2#patentDetailsTabIndex=1 northeast quarter of section 22, Township 12 west, Range 11 north]. <ref>[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ General Land Office Records], [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/details/patent/default.aspx?accession=NM0320__.199&docClass=STA&sid=n0vackpt.pq2 Serial Number NMNMAA 003173 Document number 3670].</ref> <ref>Deed Records, Book A19, page 147. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> He had laid out the town of Bluewater at what he thought was the southwest corner of his land. The town could have been laid out as early as seven years before. But now with the surveying problem, it was found that a small part of the townsite on the west side was actually on the land of Thomas J. McNeil. However the original layout of Bluewater was not changed, most likely through the cooperation of McNeil. | ||
*On 27 August 1910, “Ernst A. Tietjen and his wife Emma O. Tietjen” sold the first lot in the new town of Bluewater to E.H. Dewey for $15. <ref>Deed Records, Book A34, page 380. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> This was the beginning of the new town. For the next six years E.A. Tietjen promoted the town of Bluewater by the selling off of his land. The Bluewater townsite originally consisted of six blocks A thru F arranged as two blocks east and west by three blocks north and south. The first four blocks were divided into four lots and the last two blocks were divided into two lots because they were only half the size. Six streets were planned: the present day Oak, Center, & Spruce streets going east and west; along with the present day Fir, Cedar, & Pine streets going north and south. There was no planned street on the south going east and west. The above townsite in the records of Valencia county is called the Tietjen addition to the town of Bluewater. Only two maps show the original Bluewater townsite as it existed then, each included with a deed for land within the townsite. <ref>Deed Records, Book B1, page 610. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> <ref>Deed Records, Book B3, page 149. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> | *On 27 August 1910, “Ernst A. Tietjen and his wife Emma O. Tietjen” sold the first lot in the new town of Bluewater to E.H. Dewey for $15. <ref>Deed Records, Book A34, page 380. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> This was the beginning of the new town. For the next six years E.A. Tietjen promoted the town of Bluewater by the selling off of his land. The Bluewater townsite originally consisted of six blocks A thru F arranged as two blocks east and west by three blocks north and south. The first four blocks were divided into four lots and the last two blocks were divided into two lots because they were only half the size. Six streets were planned: the present day Oak, Center, & Spruce streets going east and west; along with the present day Fir, Cedar, & Pine streets going north and south. There was no planned street on the south going east and west. The above townsite in the records of Valencia county is called the Tietjen addition to the town of Bluewater. Only two maps show the original Bluewater townsite as it existed then, each included with a deed for land within the townsite. <ref>Deed Records, Book B1, page 610. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> <ref>Deed Records, Book B3, page 149. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> | ||
*In August 1915, Thomas J. McNeill sold land to the School District #16. <ref>Deed Records, Book B3, page 246. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> He then began to setup the "McNeill Addition to the Old Bluewater Townsite" and recorded a map of this addition four years later. The map clearly showed a new street connecting from the town to the County Road. The second Bluewater school house (above) was shown on the south side of this street in the middle of the block. <ref>County Records, Maps B 362. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> In the present day, this is Pinon Street connecting from Pine Street to Main Street. Probably it was about this time that Center Street was also extended from Pine Street to Main Street. | *In August 1915, Thomas J. McNeill sold land to the School District #16. <ref>Deed Records, Book B3, page 246. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> He then began to setup the "McNeill Addition to the Old Bluewater Townsite" and recorded a map of this addition four years later. The map clearly showed a new street connecting from the town to the County Road. The second Bluewater school house (above) was shown on the south side of this street in the middle of the block. <ref>County Records, Maps B 362. Valencia county NM Recorders Office.</ref> In the present day, this is Pinon Street connecting from Pine Street to Main Street. Probably it was about this time that Center Street was also extended from Pine Street to Main Street. | ||