Reyado
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| NAME: Reyado COUNTY: Colfax ROADS: 2WD GRID #(see map): 1 CLIMATE: Almost like heaven! BEST TIME TO VISIT:Any time the notion strikes. |
COMMENTS:
12 miles south of Cimarron NM. Just ask
for directions. Reyado almost didn't make it. When land baron Lucien Maxwell
founded the settlement south of Cimarron in 1848, Cimarron didn't even exist. There were only Ute and Apache Indians, and they weren't happy with Maxwell. Settlers were reluctant to come until Maxwell brought Kit CVarson from Taos, 35 miles west, as a protective presence. Reyado, a stagecoach and wagon stop along the Santa Fe Trail, was the first settlement east of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southern extension of the Rockies. Life was risky for a while until the Indian attacks slowed. By 1857, there enough settlers that the town of Cimarron was founded to the North. The reddish adobe buildings of Reyado are now maintained by the Boy Scount os America on the 138000 acre Philmont Scout Ranch. Scout leaders dressedin period costumes lead visitors through Raydos adober hacienda. It has been restored from the two original rooms that had survived, according to Bruce Richardson, 30, a history teacher from Richland, Mo., who has been 12 years on summer staff at Philmont. "I've talked to people who told me they were actually born in this room," Richardson said in the kitchen. In neighboring buildings are the 1860 stagecoach stop, store and accomodiations for stage passengers. (Credit an article in Carlsbad Curren Current-Argus)9/1/98. "Gone but not forgotten' REMAINS: Fully and authentically restored. Belongs to Boy Scout Ranch on whose property it is located. |
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Established by Lucien Maxwell in about
1848. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter
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