About
Made in Mesilla is a local guide to one plaza town on the Rio Grande and the Mesilla Valley around it: its restaurants, shops, galleries, farms, makers, places to stay, history and stories.
What Made In is
Made In is a family of city guides from Good Neighbor, the Bay Area city guide created by Joelle. Each Made In site celebrates one town: the people who grow, bake, brew, craft and build things there, and the places worth a stop. See the Good Neighbor guide.
Made in Mesilla is built with Bossreach, which gathers the directory and runs the site’s content system, and draws its puzzles from the playbook of Bossfeed.
How the listings are made
The directory starts from public sources: OpenStreetMap, local listings and each business’s own website. Descriptions are short and factual and come from what a business says about itself; review lines are quoted word for word with a link to where they were posted.
Because Mesilla itself is small, the guide also includes businesses in the surrounding Mesilla Valley. Is your business here, missing, or out of date? Use Claim or update this listing on its page, or write to us. Listing is free.
Photo credits
A public ceremony on Mesilla Plaza, with a historical marker at the lectern — NPS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Calle de Parian beside the plaza in the evening light, with the Organ Mountains on the horizon — Thealmurda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The plaza’s bandstand with the twin towers of San Albino behind it — Roger Pierson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The brick towers and facade of the Basilica of San Albino — National Trails Office (US National Park Service), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A brick-paved street beside the whitewashed adobe building of La Posta de Mesilla — National Trails Office (US National Park Service), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
San Albino’s tower rising over the trees on Calle Principal — Thealmurda, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Mesilla Valley and the Organ Mountains seen across the desert — Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Orange pumpkins lying in a Mesilla Valley field — timlewisnm, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Green riverside scrub below sandy bluffs on a Mesilla Valley trail — Susan Barnum, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
El Patio and the Territorial-style buildings along the plaza’s Calle de Parian — Jerri Wells, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Rows of sun-dried adobe bricks, the town’s traditional building material — National Trails Office (US National Park Service), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A painting of Old Mesilla Plaza with ox carts and the church — Leon Trousset (born France 1838 - died Juarez, Mexico 1917) – Artist (American) Born in France. Died in Juarez, Mexico. , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Red chile peppers drying in a Mesilla field — Dicklyon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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