Vado is a small farming community about fifteen miles south of Las Cruces, New Mexico, set in the Mesilla Valley along the corridor of the El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. The settlement was founded in the early 1900s by Francis M Boyer and Ella Louise McGruder Boyer, African American homesteaders from Georgia who sought land and opportunity in the Southwest. Situated on the east bank of the Rio Grande, Vado developed as a dispersed rural community without a defined town center, surrounded by fields, irrigation ditches, and small farmsteads. Today it remains an unincorporated agricultural area where crops are grown and you can buy alfalfa in bulk. - AsNotedIn