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>Friday December 27, 2002
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>TEXAS
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>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=904496
>The grass-covered mounds just outside Floresville seem unremarkable, but
>beneath the sandy cocoons are ruins -- and an opportunity. Three centuries
>ago it was a ranch, an isolated outpost that supported one of San Antonio's
>Spanish missions. To local historians and area residents, the remnants
>of Rancho de las Cabras, or ranch of the goats, are an almost forgotten
>piece of South Texas history, a little-known part of the San Antonio Missions
>National Historical Park. The National Park Service took over the site
>in 1995, after a team of archaeologists from the University of Texas at
>San Antonio excavated the crumbling sandstone walls of the ranch's
>headquarters.
>The site offers a window to understanding the ranching operations that
>supported the missions, park historian Rosalind Rock said.
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>http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6505575&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475621&rfi=6
>Along the walls of the mesas to the south of the river early settlers found
>an Indian burial site. With the Indian were several pieces of jewelry
>encrusted
>with precious stones and a silver goblet with the mark of its English maker
>dated 1830. In a 1925 Frontier Times, the author reported that a resident
>of Sterling City still retained possession of these artifacts, but I do
>not know if their whereabouts are still known.
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>NEW MEXICO
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>http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144&dept_id=500281&newsid=6505964&PAG=461&rfi=9
>Household trash found outside the Palace of the Governors will hopefully
>tell archaeologists more about the daily lives of the people during New
>Mexico's Spanish colonial era.
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>http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=6506249&BRD=2144&PAG=461&dept_id=367954&rfi=6
>Taos has a worsening traffic problem and faces a big population spike in
>the very near future. Now, county leaders are taking a stab at cutting
>a new road through one of the most complicated counties in the state. The
>less favorable alternative, Blueberry Hill Road, is lined with many new
>houses and 18 archaeological sites. Economists from UNM are predicting
>a 50 percent population spike in the town by 2020. A fancy new road could
>destroy the small-town charm that draws visitors in the first place, said
>Karen Young, director of the Taos Historic Museums. "Preserving a landscape
>around historic buildings is almost as important as preserving historic
>buildings," she said.
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>COLORADO
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>http://www.lamardaily.com/Stories/0,1413,121%257E7979%257E1074701,00.html
>Officials with the City of Lamar are probing into the history and travels
>of Zebulon Pike, who apparently traversed the area some 200 years ago and
>apparently made camp in Lamar. A $1,500 grant is available through the
>Santa Fe Trail Association to do historical research on Pike's travels,
>while the Colorado Historical Society is offering grants of up to $10,000
>to provide assessment of archaeological or historical sites for potential
>restoration projects.
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>CALIFORNIA
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>http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TU&Date=20021226&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=112260010&Ref=AR
>Charlotte and Howard Dewar aren't giving up on their hopes of remodeling
>their Nevada City home, even though the plans for the 1873 "M. L. Marsh
>House" have already been rejected by the town's Planning Commission and
>the City Council. The house has been on the National Register of Historic
>Places since 1972, but it sits outside the town's historical district.
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>CYBERIA
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>http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_733036.html
>A Norfolk man has got a walking stick made out of his own hip bone. The
>62-year-old retired landscape gardener got the idea for the stick from
>one of his sons, who is an archaeologist. "The wife was horrified. I think
>she secretly suspects I'm a bit strange."
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