Valles Caldera Valles Caldera dates back to the prehistoric times: spear points dating to 11,000 years ago have been discovered. Several Native American tribes frequented the caldera, often seasonally for hunting and for obsidian, used for spear and arrow points. Obsidian from the caldera was traded by tribes across much of the Southwest. Eventually, Spanish and later Mexican settlers as well as the Navajo and other tribes came to the caldera seasonally for grazing with periodic clashes and raids. Later as the United States acquired New Mexico as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the caldera became the backdrop
42nd Precinct / Town Hall Police Station center of the township of Lake View and it was on this site that the Lake View Town Hall previously sat. The city of Chicago decided to de-centralize its police department and establish constable run stations across the city. Consequently, soon after its annexation in 1906, the old town hall was torn down and construction on a police station began. In 1959 police districts were consolidated and the 42nd Precinct became the home of the 19th District, which extended from Lawrence Avenue on the North to Fullerton Avenue on the south, and from Lake Michigan on the east to the