Hovenweep Poster Kansas This access point to the

This access point to the park served visitors for 30 years until Interstate 94 replaced U

In 1877 a group of African American families left Kentucky in search of a better life on the Kansas Prairie

specially modified rail cars were used to transport fish from hatcheries to streams

Construction began on Skyline Drive in 1931

the oldest of these locomotives

Hovenweep Poster Kansas This access point to theDescription 14" x 22" poster Interpretive Copy When pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson first visited this remote canyon in 1874, he called it Hovenweep. The Ute Paiute word meaning deserted valley aptly described the abandoned towers built between the mid 1100s and 1275 A. D. by the ancestral Puebloans. The unique architecture of these well preserved structures led to Hovenweeps official designation as a national monument in 1923.