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The second fort at the National Monument was designed to defend against a Confederate military invasion coming north up the Rio Grande Valley, from El Paso, Texas. Early in the war such a force was turned back in 1862 by Colorado and New Mexico Volunteers and U.S. Regulars from Fort Union.
Location County Description; 1: Aztec Ruins National Monument: January 24, 1923: Aztec: San Juan: Preserves ancestral Pueblo structures in north-western New Mexico 2: Bandelier National Monument: February 11, 1916: Santa Fe: Sandoval and Los Alamos: Includes Frijoles Canyon; contains (restored) ruins of dwellings, kivas, rock paintings and ...
This is a list of properties and districts in New Mexico that are on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,100 listings. Of these, 46 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in each of the state's 33 counties.
New Mexico: NPS: November 16, 1907: 533.13 acres (2.2 km 2) 79,108 Located within the Gila Wilderness, the people of the Mogollon culture lived in these cliff dwellings 180 feet (55 m) above the canyon floor from the 1280s through the early 14th century. They lived in five caves with 46 rooms.
New Mexico: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument: New Mexico: Manhattan Project National Historical Park: New Mexico: Tennessee: Washington: Pecos National Historical Park: New Mexico: Petroglyph National Monument: New Mexico: Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument: New Mexico: Valles Caldera National Preserve: New Mexico: White Sands ...
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas and other landmarks of equivalent landmark status in the state. The United States' National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service , and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources according to a list of criteria of ...
New Mexico: 318.40 acres (1.2885 km 2) Bandelier National Monument: New Mexico: 33,676.67 acres (136.2846 km 2) Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument: District of Columbia: 0.34 acres (0.0014 km 2) Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument: Alabama: 18.25 acres (0.0739 km 2) Booker T. Washington National Monument: Virginia: 239.01 ...
Pecos National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park in San Miguel County, New Mexico. The park, operated by the National Park Service , encompasses thousands of acres of landscape infused with historical elements from prehistoric archaeological ruins to 19th-century ranches, to a battlefield of the American Civil War .