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Bandelier National Monument, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, and Valles Caldera National Preserve are all being impacted in some capacity. Please check their websites and social media pages before planning your visit at this time.

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Historic Walking Tour Gallery

Ranch School Big House

Ashley Pond (archive)

A mid-1940s view (to the east on Central at 20th Street)

Fuller Lodge, designed by John Gaw Meem in 1928 for the Ranch School, still functions as a center of community activities

Quonset huts, mud rutted streets, and wooden sidewalks attest to the temporary nature of a hurriedly built town of WWII.

Ranch School Faculty Housing (archive)

The Manhattan Project Technical Area surrounding Ashley Pond, LASL Photo (archive)

Sheep graze contentedly at the H.H. Brook homestead in 1915 on the site of today’s History Museum and Fuller Lodge. (archive)

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