Mogollon

Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollón took office in Santa Fe on October 5, 1712, and was removed in 1715 amid charges of embezzlement; the mountains kept his name anyway. In 1936 the archaeologist Emil Haury lent it to a whole culture, drawing partly on his digs at Mogollon Village on the upper San Francisco River, in this county. The people the panel calls Pueblo Indians are what archaeologists now call Mogollon, and many Pueblo people today count those traditions among their own heritage. Bursum Road, turning off here, climbs to the old mining town of the same name.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Mogollon The mountains and the town were named for Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollón, governor of New Mexico from 1712 to 1715. The name also is applied to the Pueblo Indians who abandoned the area in the early 1400s. These mountains were inhabited by Apaches until the late 19th century.

Where it stands

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• Reserve — 26 mi