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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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