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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PM6_three-rivers-petroglyph-site_Tularosa-NM.html
Three miles east of here is one of the most concentrated arrays of petroglyphs in the Southwest. Along a mile-long volcanic ridge are some 21,000 images depicting animals, humans, plants and geometric shapes making it one of very few sites with pu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OYO_miller-field-gates_Las-Cruces-NM.html
There are three markers mounted on The Gates
Marker A:
Miller Field Gates
The New Mexico A&M senior class built these gates to Miller Field in 1924. The athletic field, stretching north and west from the gates was said to be the best in the ter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OX1_maria-gutierrez-spencer_Las-Cruces-NM.html
Punished for not speaking English in school, María Gutiérrez Spencer devoted her life to validating the Indo-Hispano experience. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley and New Mexico State University, she pioneered bilingual and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OWR_the-historic-green-bridge_Las-Cruces-NM.html
This structure is the oldest steel highway bridge in New Mexico, built in 1902 by Chaves County as part of the three-span Pecos River Bridge east of Roswell. There it connected the growing town with the smaller communities and ranches of the Easte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OCT_welcome-to-capulin-volcano-national-monument_Des-Moines-NM.html
Capulin Volcano directly in front of you is a dramatic example of the volcanic processes that shaped northeastern New Mexico. Capulin Volcano National Monument preserves this classic cinder cone. About 60,000 years ago thunderous explosions sent m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OCS_making-a-monument_Des-Moines-NM.html
The late 1800s were a time of homesteading and private acquisition of public lands. Conservationists began working to preserve some public lands like Yellowstone and Yosemite. In 1891, the General Land Office of the Department of the Interior with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OCR_the-raton-clayton-volcanic-field_Des-Moines-NM.html
This region of volcanic activity is the Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field. It has been active periodically, beginning at the western edge of the field with the Raton Phase from 9 to 3 million years ago. The Capulin Phase began about 1 million years ago…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OCP_grasslands-meet-mountains_Des-Moines-NM.html
The shortgrass prairie and mountain forest meet here in the high plains of northeastern New Mexico. This transition between two ecosystems provides habitat for many different plants and animals. The shortgrass prairie is the western limit of the N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OCN_building-a-cinder-cone_Des-Moines-NM.html
Cinder cones experience a single eruptive period, and then die. Several explosive eruptions created Capulin Volcano, during a period as short as one year or as long as nine or more years. Today Capulin Volcano is extinct.
Volcanic ash, cinders…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1O0Q_sierra-grande_Des-Moines-NM.html
Largest extinct volcano in northeastern New Mexico, Sierra Grande rises to an elevation of 8,720 feet, one of many volcanos, cinder cones, and flows that cover more than 1,000 square miles of area in northeastern New Mexico and southeastern Colora…