is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States.
[4] Jean-Baptiste Lamy's influence over this area includes his creation of Santa Fe's first English teaching school, as well as establishing other similar institutions.
[5] Lamy Junction Community is a notable set of 14 Coalition Era pueblos and other structures.
This archeological site is located near the junction of US Highway 285 and Santa Fe County Road 233.
[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km2), all land.
[10] A former schoolhouse in Lamy has been converted to a private home,[11] after previously serving as a meeting location for the Bioneers.
However, as the tracks progressed west into New Mexico, the civil engineers in charge realized that the hills surrounding Santa Fe made this impractical.
In 1896 the Fred Harvey Company built the luxurious El Ortiz Hotel here, and was designed by Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter.
The significance of Lamy as a railroad junction is related in the Oscar-nominated documentary, The Day After Trinity (1980), about the building of the first atomic bomb, and is referred to by instrumental group the California Guitar Trio in a five-part suite Train to Lamy on their second album Invitation (1995).
Martin, created Sky Railway, an excursion train that runs on Santa Fe Southern Railway's route between Lamy and Santa Fe, although the excursions themselves do not run all the way to Lamy.