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CASAS GRANDES (" See also:Great Houses ") , a small See also:village of See also:Mexico, in the See also:state of See also:Chihuahua, situated on the Casas Grandes or See also:San See also:Miguel See also:river, about 35 M. S. of Llanos and x5o M. N.W, of the See also:city of Chihuahua. The railway from See also:Ciudad See also:Juarez to Terrazas passes through the See also:town. It is celebrated for the ruins of See also:early aboriginal buildings still extant, about See also:half a mile from its See also:present site. They are built of " See also:sun-dried blocks of mud and See also:gravel, about 22 in. thick, and of irregular length, generally about 3 ft., probably formed and dried in situ." The walls are in some places about 5 ft. thick, and they seem to have been plastered both inside and outside. The See also:principal edifice extends 800 ft. from See also:north to See also:south, and 250 ft. See also:east to See also:west; its See also:general outline is rectangular, and it appears to have consisted of three See also:separate piles See also:united by galleries or lines of See also:lower buildings. The exact See also:plan of the whole is obscure, but the apartments evidently varied in See also:size from See also:mere closets to extensive courts. The walls still stand at many of the angles with a height of from 40 to 50 ft., and indicate an See also:original See also:elevation of several storeys, perhaps six or seven. At a distance of about 450 ft. from the See also:main See also:building are the substructions of a smaller edifice, consisting of a See also:series of rooms ranged See also:round a square See also:court, so that there are seven to each See also:side besides a larger apartment at each corner. The See also:age of these buildings is unknown, as they were already in ruins at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Spanish See also:Conquest. The whole See also:district of Casas Grandes is further studded with artificial mounds, from which are excavated from time to time large See also:numbers of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone axes, metates or See also:corn-grinders, and earthern vessels of various kinds. These last have a See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white or reddish ground, with ornamentation in See also:blue, red, See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown or See also:black, and are of much better manufacture than the See also:modern pottery of the See also:country. Similar ruins to those of Casas Grandes exist near the Gila, the Salinas, and the See also:Colorado
and it is probable that they are all the erections of one See also:people. See also:Bancroft is disposed to assign them to the Moquis.
See vol. iv. of H. H. Bancroft's The Native Races of the Pacific States of North See also:America, of which the principal authorities are the Noticias del Estado de Chihuahua of Escudero, who visited the ruins in 1819; an See also:article in the first See also:volume of the See also:Album Mexicano, theauthor of which was at Casas Grandes in r842; and the See also:Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in See also:Texas, New Mexico, See also:California, Sonora and Chihuahua (1854), by See also:John See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell See also:Bartlett, who explored the locality in 1851.
End of Article: CASAS GRANDES (" Great Houses ")
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