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Caption: Marker detail: Fort Union Military Reservation Map
Additional Description: At 721 acres, Fort Union National Monument comprises less than 2 percent of the original 44,000-acre military reservation established in 1851.

Surveyed and drawn by John Lambert
under the direction of
Bvt. Col. H. M. Enos, U.S.A.
Chief Qr. Mr. District of New Mexico.
August to December 1866.
The prevailing rock in the bluffs & cañons
is sandstone; the timber is pine & cedar.
The green tint represents open prairie.
The brown scoring is cultivated.
Submitted: September 28, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p540699
File Size: 3.250 Megabytes

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