New Mexico Entertainment

This photograph was taken in 1867, looking east toward the lava bluffs across the river.  The powder magazine in the left center was compled in 1863, with a floor three feet below ground surface, heavy vertical post walls, and a thick cap of earth, plastered with locally made jaspe.  The building deteriorated and was torn down only five years later.  The adobe building in the background contained, from left to right, a series of offices and issue rooms, the blacksmith's shop, additional offices, and occasional chapel, and on the extreme right, the original Sutler's Store.

April 2000

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