San Pedro, New Mexico was a small village that lies east of San Antonio that started at the turn of the century. San Pedro consists of over a dozen buildings including a two-room school, a long adobe residence, and an attractive adobe and wood church with steeple. San Pedro, settled principally by the Tefoya and Montoya families, was an old Spanish agricultural community along the Rio Grande, but the riverbed is dry now because canals have altered the natural course of the water. Grapes were a specialty of the area with wine "sent all the way to Kansas," according to a resident. Eventually some of the citizens became miners, commuting to the nearby coal towns of Tokay and Carthage.

The old village is no more, but there are newer homes that have been built in and around the old adobe ruins. All that remains today of the original old village are the ruins of an old two room school house, a few scattered abode and a small area that has the ruins of their old abode church, and a dozen abode homes. The old adobe homes in this area were still being used until a fire was started when a dog knocked over a candle and the fire spread during a 40 mph wind storm spreading the fire to the adobe homes across the street. The burned out landscape is suitable for any Stephen King's novel, especially about spooky ruins, curses, and wolves that howl at night.

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