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Chaco Canyon National
Historical Park, a World Heritage Site |
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| 1907 Chaco Canyon National Monument is established in northwestern New Mexico to preserve a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture that flourished between AD 850 and 1250. It was a hub of ceremony, trade, and administration for the prehistoric Four Corners area - unlike anything before or since. In 1980 it would be redesignated as Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Today, the sites are part of the sacred homeland of Pueblo Indian
peoples of New Mexico, the Hopi Indians of Arizona, and the Navajo Indians
of the Southwest, all of whom continue to respect and honor them. |
| 1948 The De Soto National Memorial is established in Bradenton, Florida, to commemorate the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who landed on the southwest Florida coast in 1539. With an army of 600 men, his expedition was the first large scale European mission into the interior of North America. |
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