Hacienda Antigua Inn

Don Pablo Irizarri was born in the Basque country of Spain in the mid 1750s. Like his father, General Santiago Irizarri, he became a soldier in the Spanish army. He was sent to Vera Cruz, Mexico by King Charles III of Spain in the late 1770s. He was commissioned by the King to recover 1600 burro loads of gold, silver, and valuable church vessels reportedly buried in the ruins at the Mission Gran Quivira, SE of Albuquerque.