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New Mexico
Fort Craig Rio Grande frontier fort
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: lead balls, Civil War era bullets and cartridges, horse tack, mess and camp items.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1854-1885 US Army post on the Camino Real
A 40-acre Army fort built in 1853-1854 on a bluff above the Rio Grande to guard the Camino Real and the Jornada del Muerto, later headquarters for campaigns against the Gila and Mimbres Apaches. It was permanently abandoned in 1885.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
remote, rattlesnakes
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