BGuthrie Photos: AZ -- Montezuma Castle Natl Monument -- Well

AZ -- Montezuma Castle Natl Monument -- Well:

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1. MONTW_030601_03.JPG: This was my third and final rattlesnake on this trip. A naturalist had captured the snake, put it in this plastic tube, and was preparing to inject it with an electronic tagging device. By putting this chip in the snake, they could identify the snake later if they caught it again. This would help them determine migration patterns, life expectancies, etc. The snake (a female) wasn't very happy with this experience.
2. MONTW_030601_10.JPG: These are some of the ruins in the Montezuma Well
3. MONTW_030601_18.JPG: The floating thing is a muskrat which makes its home in the well
4. MONTW_030601_38.JPG: Old graffiti: "Photos of this by Rothrock Phoenix 1878 & ..."
5. MONTW_030601_39.JPG: Old graffiti: "I Hill, Duke, G Heflin 6/30/1896"
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Wikipedia Description: Montezuma Castle National Monument
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Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States, features well-preserved cliff dwellings. They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people around 1400 AD. Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to their former homes for religious ceremonies. When European Americans discovered them in the 1850s, they reported native traditions recalling they had been built by a divine hero named Montezuma; whose name may have been connected with the well-known historical Aztec emperor of Mexico, Moctezuma II, and accounts in Spanish as early as 1694 reference them as the "Casas de Montezuma". Some of these accounts have led to a mistaken belief that the Spanish or Americans themselves had named them after the emperor.

Cliff Dwelling:

The last known record of Sinagua occupation for any sites are for Montezuma Castle National Monument around 1425 AD. The reasons for abandonment of their habitation sites are not yet known, but warfare, drought, and clashes with the newly-arrived Yavapai people have been suggested. The five-story stone and mortar dwellings contain 20 rooms and once housed about 50 people. A natural overhang shades the rooms and shelters them from rain. Another part of the cliff wall bears the marks of an even larger dwelling, which has not survived.

The dwellings and the surrounding area were declared a U.S. National Monument on December 8, 1906. The National Monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

This is an easy monument to visit, a short distance off Interstate 17, exit 287. There is a paved trail of 1/4 mile from the visitor center along the base of the cliff containing the ruins. Access to the ruins has not been allowed since 1950.

Montezuma Well:

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