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This park commemorates Smokey Bear and describes the history and development of this national symbol of forest fire protection. The original Smokey is buried here within sight of the mountain where he was found orphaned by a fire raging in the Lin…
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Many incidents in the Lincoln County War, 1876-1879, occurred in the area around Capit?n. The promoters Charles B. and John A. Eddy platted the townsite in 1900, after building a spur of the El Paso & Northeastern Railroad from Carrizozo in order …
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[This is a two-sided marker] Side A:Many incidents in the Lincoln County War, 1876-1879, occurred in the area around Capit?n. The promoters Charles B. and John A. Eddy platted the townsite in 1900, after building a spur of the El Paso & Northea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUWQ_capitan_Capitan-NM.html
Many incidents in the Lincoln County War, 1876-1879, occurred in the area around Capitan. The promoters Charles B. and John A. Eddy platted the townsite in 1900, after building a spur of the El Paso & Northeastern Railroad from Carrizozo in order …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGOB_smokey-bear_Capitan-NM.html
This is the resting place of the first living Smokey Bear. In 1950 when Smokey was a tiny cub, wildfire burned his forest home in the nearby Capitan Mountains of the Lincoln National Forest. Firefighters found the badly burned cub clinging to a bl…
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