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Frontera: Landmarks

Centralized guide to all EPCC's local history publications, videos and guides and sources for local history topics

Landmarks and Other Sites

Dinosaur Tracks (near Mt. Cristo Rey)

Dunes Samaluca outside Cd. Juarez

El Paso Historic Mission Trail 

The El Paso Skyline 

Firecracker Pueblo (archaeological site in northeast El Paso)  

Franklin Mountains State Park  created through the efforts of State Senator Tati Santiesteban and State Representative Ronald Coleman -- see Men in Politics page for sources

I-10 Highway (El Paso) 

Juarez Race Track

Keystone Heritage Park  Password articles (may be more in later issues) Keystone Archaeological Site, 44, 29; Keystone site 49, 92

Connect to Nature: Keystone Heritage Park (Only in El Paso)

Murals and Muralists

Plaza de la Mexicanidad / the Big Red X in Juarez

Search strategies: Please try the following search options  “Plaza de la Mexicanidad” OR “La X de Sebastian” OR “La X de Juarez” OR “Monumento la X de Sebastián”, make sure you use the quotes.  Search in databases, google scholar, google, etc. You may find different interpretations of its meaning. 

Public Art in El Paso

Rio Vista Farm in Socorro, TX / Helen O'Shea Keleher
Helen Keleher's archival collection is at the EP Historical Society

Roadside Architecture/Vintage Signs

Star on the Mountain

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site (Otero County, NM)

General Sources

Librarian

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