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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCZ_aztec_Aztec-NM.html
Aztec, named for the nearby National Monument, was founded in 1876 when portions of the Jicarilla Apache Reservation were opened for non Indian settlement. It is the seat of San Juan County, which was created in 1887 partially as a response to the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCV_city-of-bloomfield_Bloomfield-NM.html
Prehistoric farmers established major communities along the rivers of this region in the eleventh century. Eight hundred years later, historic settlement was also made possible by abundant water. Bloomfield was established in 1879 near a site whic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCS_salmon-ruin_Bloomfield-NM.html
In the late 11th century, influence from Chaco Canyon, 45 miles south of here, began to be felt at this site and at nearby Aztec Ruins National Monument. The Chacoans abandoned this large and well-built masonry pueblo by 1150, and shortly thereaft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCR_hogback_Waterflow-NM.html
Steeply dipping strata define the western edge of the San Juan basin. To the west older geologic formations are exposed toward the Defiance uplift whereas basinward they are downwarped thousands of feet beneath younger rock units. Vast coal, urani…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOCQ_beclabito-dome_Shiprock-NM.html
Colorful red rocks of Entrada Sandstone are domed up by deep seated igneous intrusions to be exposed by erosion. The same igneous activity created the Carrizo Mountains to the west. Uranium deposits in the Morrison Formation just above the Entrada…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF45_footloose-in-farmington_Farmington-NM.html
Farmington, New Mexico, the heart of the Four Corners, boasts a thriving downtown, where character, history and culture fuse in a mixture of places and events. Originally the land in what is now Northwest New Mexico was known as T?ta'  in Nav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF2T_farmington-new-mexico_Farmington-NM.html
First settled 1876 to 1878 by families of William and Marion B. Hendrickson, Charles and Milton Virden, Orville Pyle, A.F. Miller and William Lock. The first school-house was built in 1879; the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886. William Lock star…
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