Historic Route 66 - Grants Silhouette - New Mexico, USA. - National Scenic Byways on Waymarking.com

Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about 80 miles west of Albuquerque, on Historic Route 66.
The large metal Silhouette pictograph was an invite to me to stop for a few photos.
The history of Grants is portrayed in one silhouette sculpture. The artwork is very detailed and shows several iconic periods in the Towns history. Railroad, Logging, Native American Culture, Westward Expansion, Pioneers, Spanish Trails, Uranium Mining, and Route 66.
Of course once you have stopped you may as well visit the Uranium Mining Museum next door.

From the Museum Web site:
"In the mining industry, it's a fact of life and a philosophy: everything starts with a hole in the ground.
Uranium, coal, gold, silver, diamonds, copper and a myriad of other exotic metals, minerals and gems from the original hole in the ground are released to flow up and out in the world to become the wealth of nations.
Very few places in the world recreate the raw and often dangerous conditions of the hole in the ground re-created in Grants, New Mexico, in "one of the few Uranium Mining Museums in the World." Text Source: (visit link)

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Program: America's Byways Website: [Web Link] Official Name: Historic route 66.

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