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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/HMOAP_the-catwalk_LaGrange-NM.html
This steel causeway follows two pipelines which supplied water and water power to the old town of Graham where gold and silver ores were milled from nearby mines in the 1890's. The causeway clings to the sides of a sheer box canyon in Saltwater Cr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO84_reserve_Reserve-NM.html
Population 600 — Elevation 5765 ft.Located in the San Francisco Valley, Reserve was named upper San Francisco Plaza by its original Hispanic settlers in 1874. The name was later changed to Reserve in recognition of the U.S. Forest Service he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO83_reserve_Reserve-NM.html
Population 600 — Elevation 5765 ft.Located in the San Francisco Valley, Reserve was named upper San Francisco Plaza by its original Hispanic settlers in 1874. The name was later changed to Reserve in recognition of the U.S. Forest Service he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNZU_jumbo_Socorro-NM.html
This is a fragment from Jumbo, a huge steel vessel designed to contain the explosion of the first nuclear device at the Trinity Site some 35 miles southeast of here on July 16, 1945. Jumbo was 25 feet long, 12 feet in diameter, and weighed 214 ton…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNB9_rodeo-station_Rodeo-NM.html
The El Paso and Southwestern railroad was constructed in 1902 by Phelps, Dodge and Company, to link El Paso, Texas with the copper mines of Bisbee, Arizona. New Mexico Highway 9, the "Border Route", between Columbus and Rodeo, parallels the rail l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMUS_chimayo-trading-post-trujillo-house_Espanola-NM.html
Restored 1939 on the site of original 1926 trading post.
A Registered Cultural Property State of New Mexico
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM0O_the-mormon-battalion_Algodones-NM.html
The Mormon BattalionCouncil Bluffs, July 16, 1846Fort Leavenworth, Aug. 2, 1846Santa Fe, Oct. 9, 1846San Diego, Jan 29, 1847Erected June 16, 1940[ Map of Mormon Battalion Route ]The Mormon Battalion, composed of 500 men mustered into the service o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLY1_san-gabriel_Ohkay-Owingeh-NM.html
Governor Juan de O?ate set up his headquarters in San Juan Pueblo in 1598, but by 1601 he had moved the Spanish capital across the Rio Grande to Yuque-Yunque Pueblo. Named San Gabriel, it served as the seat of government until 1610, when O?ate's s…