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October 23, 2009
History is written on stone at El Morro
New Mexican national monument is inscribed with the names of long-ago travelers who passed there.
By SUE MAJOR HOLMES
Associated Press Writer
Photo by Sarah Beckwith/National Park Service
[enlarge]El Morro was once a stopping point for thirsty travelers, thanks to a pool fed by runoff from the sandstone bluff.
EL MORRO NATIONAL MONUMENT, N.M. — For centuries, Spanish explorers, U.S. Army troops, wagon train emigrants and railroad surveyors carved their names on a huge sandstone outcrop in what's now a national monument famed for those inscriptions.
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