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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZI_santa-fe-railroad_Chambers-AZ.html
Across the Puerco River, the tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad stretch for miles to the east and to the west. With no landforms or forests to block your view, you can see very long trains from beginning to end. More than 60 train…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZH_meaning-of-place_Chambers-AZ.html
Puerco Pueblo means different things to different people. Visitors come here to learn about the past and make their own personal connections by walking within this ancient community. Artists have also found inspiration by spending time at this vil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZG_whispers-from-the-past_Chambers-AZ.html
For thousands of years, indigenous people have used rock faces as means of communication. Petroglyphs are images, symbols, or designs scratched, pecked, carved, or incised on the surface of rock. These features are like whispers from the past and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZE_a-canvas-for-ideas_Chambers-AZ.html
The dark coating on the boulder below you is desert varnish - a concentration of mineral, clay, and organic material that accumulates over time. Prehistoric artists created rock art by exposing the lighter material underneath. But what do these sy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZC_summer-solstice-marker_Chambers-AZ.html
A solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice annually as the Sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, June 20th is usually the longest day of the year and is referred to as the summer solstice.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZB_life-in-the-village_Chambers-AZ.html
Did you notice where the trail passed over the faint outlines of the rooms? Over 100 rooms formed a one-story apartment complex surrounding a central plaza in the village. The building materials for the pueblo were blocks of native sandstone, shap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ9_training-to-defend-america_Chambers-CA.html
From World War II until Fort Ord's closure in 1994, there dunes echoed with the sound of small arms fire. Rifle and machine gun ranges here gave thousands of U.S. Army Infantrymen the marksmanship skills needed to serve their nation in times of bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ8_former-firing-range-becomes-a-state-park_Chambers-CA.html
Four miles of beaches and nearly 1000 acres of coastal dunes became part of the California State Parks system in 2007, after superfund cleanup activities were completed on this section of the former Fort Ord Military Reservation. Army use preserve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ7_a-coastal-attack-the-army-couldn-t-stop_Chambers-CA.html
Soldiers once guarded this shoreline against sea-borne attack, but one force proved too powerful to stop. Coastal erosion, the wearing away of these bluffs and beaches by ocean waves, has been steadily moving the coastline inland here since sea le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ6_stilwell-hall-a-fond-memory_Chambers-CA.html
For the two million servicemen and women who passed through Fort Ord, the entertainment center that once occupied this site provided welcome relief from rigorous military training. The Soldier's Club, later renamed Stilwell Hall, featured a huge b…