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=== History === | === History === | ||
*In December 1905, Ernst A. Tietjen finished homesteading his land obtaining clear title to the northeast quarter of | *In December 1905, Ernst A. Tietjen finished homesteading his land obtaining clear title to the northeast quarter of Section 22 in Township 12 west, Range 11 north. <ref>[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ General Land Office Records] 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. | ||
*In February 1908, Thomas J. McNeill finished homesteading his land and obtained clear title.<ref>[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ General Land Office Records] Serial Number MV-0724-443, Document number 4314.</ref> This land was located to the south and to the west of the land owned by E.A. Tietjen. But now with the surveying problem, it was found that a small part of the Bluewater 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. | *In February 1908, Thomas J. McNeill finished homesteading his land and obtained clear title.<ref>[http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ General Land Office Records] Serial Number MV-0724-443, Document number 4314.</ref> This land was located to the south and to the west of the land owned by E.A. Tietjen. But now with the surveying problem, it was found that a small part of the Bluewater 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> | ||