Round Mound is about 4 miles south
of the intersection of US Highway 64/87 and New Mexico Highway 120 at Grenville,
New Mexico. Round Mound was the major landmark, or steering point, after
Santa Fe Trail travelers left the Turkey Creek Camp. The Trail passed to
the north of Round Mound, and travelers often commented on it. An illustration
in Josiah Gregg's Commerce
of the Prairies shows a wagon train as
seen from Round Mound. Today this site is known as Mount Clayton.
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