Fort Union: National Monument, New Mexico (National Park Service Historical Handbook Series, No. 35)

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68 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. "Fort Union National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service of the United States, and is located north of Watrous in Mora Co unty, New Mexico. The national monument was founded on June 28, 1954. The site preserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851, as well as the ruins of the third. Also visible is a network of ruts from the Mountain and Cimarron Branches of the old Santa Fe Trail.[5] The fort was established in the New Mexico Territory, on the Santa Fe Trail.[7] It was provisioned in large part by farmers and ranchers of what is now Mora County (formally created in 1860), including the town of Mora, where the grist mill established by Ceran St. Vrain in 1855 produced most of the flour used at the fort." Show more