Pecos National Historical Park

The people did not end with the ruins. The seventeen or so who walked west to Jemez in 1838 joined relatives who spoke the same Towa language, and by 1933 nearly half of Jemez Pueblo was of Pecos descent. Congress merged the two pueblos in 1936, and Jemez has kept a Pecos governor among its officers. In May 1999 Harvard's Peabody Museum returned the remains of 2,067 people Alfred Kidder's crews dug from this ridge between 1915 and 1929, and Jemez reburied them here, the largest repatriation the country had seen.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pecos National Historical Park — 0.7 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.
• Palace of the Governors — 17 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.
• Montezuma Castle — 23 mi
  The railroad's turreted resort at the Las Vegas hot springs, burned twice in its first years, empty for most of a century, and now home to an international school.

More markers nearby

• San Antonio de Padua Catholic Church — 1.6 mi
• Hogbacks — 24 mi
• Villanueva State Park — 28 mi
• Strike Valleys — 31 mi