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El Morro has been working with the University of Pennsylvania on preservation since the early 1990s. The latest phase will produce a conservation plan next spring.
“Miss A.F. Baley,” says another, from 1858. Still, you may not have heard of El Morro National Monument, a.k.a. Inscription Rock, because it’s out of the way, even by rural New Mexico standards.
El Morro, which sits within the San Juan National Historic Site, juts out of San Juan harbor and beckons to cruise ships. Construction of the hulking, six-story fortress started in 1539. It was ...
This photo taken Sept. 2, 2009 shows the writings of R.H. Orton who inscribed a church and cross on the sandstone cliff in 1866 at El Morro National Monument in northwestern New Mexico.