THREE RIVERS TOWNSITE
N 33° 19.282 W 106° 04.681
13S E 399660 N 3687433
THREE RIVERS HISTORICAL TOWNSITE AND RUINS
Waymark Code: WM13VX
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2007
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Located in the Tularosa Basin.
First Habitated by the Anasazi Indians as shown by the Petroglyph site 3 miles east.
Later the Cattle barons as the likes of Albert Bacon Fall, John S. Chisum, and Susie McSween Barber, "the cattle queen of New Mexico.",have all passed this point.
Charles B. Eddy's El Paso & Northeastern Railroad reached here in 1899.
The first successful European settlement in the Tularosa Basin dates from 1862, when 50 or 60 Hispanic farmers moved from the Rio Grande Valley. Heavy Anglo settlement began in the 1880s as settlers and cattlemen from farther east began moving into New Mexico. Tularosa appears as "Oasis" in the novels of western writer Eugene Manlove Rhodes.
We have passed this point numerous times on our travels through on Highway 54.
History::
THREE RIVERS IS A HISTORIC RAILROAD SITE AS WELL AS AN OLD FRONTIER TRAIL.
Link to History,Plaque or Sign:: [Web Link]
Additional Point: Not Listed
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