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Certified Santa Fe National Historic Trail Sites
Sites on the National Register of Historic Places are noted (NRHP)
National Historic Landmarks are noted (NHL)
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| Santa Fe Trail Site
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Description
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| Wagon Mound (NHL)
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The Wagon Mound is above the town of Wagon Mound,
New Mexico. This landmark is so named because it looks like a covered wagon
being pulled by oxen, and it was one of the best-known landmarks on the
Santa Fe Trail. Wagon Mound was the last major landmark on the Cimarron
Route. Trail ruts lead both directions from there. In 1850, a party of
10 men accompanying the express mail wagon on the Cimarron Route, were killed
by Jicarilla Apaches near Wagon Mound.
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| Santa Clara Spring
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Santa Clara Spring is on private land, about 2 miles
northwest of the town of Wagon Mound. At the head of a small canyon, this
spring was used by Santa Fe Trail travelers and still serves as the water
source for the town of Wagon Mound.
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Pilot Knobs
12K
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The Pilot Knobs are 2 miles west of Wagon Mound.
They were used as a landmark for wagon trains, but they were not as important
as the more visible Wagon Mound, immediately to the east.
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Ruts at Kiowa National Grassland
17K
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