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| New Mexico (Socorro County), San Marcial — Fort Craig | | | Fort Craig, which replaced Fort Conrad located about nine miles north, was established to control Indian raids along the Jornada del Muerto. Troops from Fort Craig were defeated by Confederate forces at the Battle of Valverde, 7 miles distant, in 1862. Capt. Jack Crawford, the "Poet Scout," was stationed here. — Map (db m24312) | | New Mexico (Socorro County), White Sands Proving Grounds — McDonald Ranch House Trinity Site — National Historic Landmark — 1972 | | | Restored by
US Army White Sands Missile Range
US Department of Energy
National Park Service
1984
In the front room of this humble ranch house the world's first nuclear device was assembled on 13 July 1945. The device was then taken to Trinity Site, two miles from here, where it was placed into a test bomb and detonated at dawn on 16 July 1945. This historic event signaled the dawn of a new age and was forever to change the human experience. While nuclear technology was born of war, it . . . — Map (db m15072) | | New Mexico (Socorro County), White Sands Proving Grounds — Trinity Site | | | . . . — Map (db m4314) | | New Mexico (Socorro County), White Sands Proving Grounds — Trinity Site | | | The world's first atomic explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity Site near the north end of the historic Jornada del Muerto. It marked the beginning of the nuclear age, and the culmination of the Manhattan Project. The site, now part of the White Sands Missile Range, is closed to the public. — Map (db m15073) |
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