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Fort Sumner is a village in and the county seat of De Baca County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 1,031 at the 2010 U.S. Census, down from the figure of 1,249 recorded in 2000.Fort Sumner is the spring and fall home of the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility.
Welcome to Fort Sumner! Named after former New Mexico military governor Edwin Vose Sumner, Fort Sumner was a military fort charged with the internment of nearby Navajo and Mescalero Apache populations from 1863 to 1868.
Mar 22, 2022 · The Billy the Kid Museum is right in town, and was much more than I’d thought it would be. While there are a considerable number of displays regarding the Kid, there is much more from general life in this part of New Mexico, up until the 1950s, but concentrating on the late 1800s/early 1900s.
A hundred years after the signing of the treaty that allowed the Navajo people to return to their original homes in the Four Corners Region, Fort Sumner was declared a New Mexico State Monument in 1968.. The property is now managed by the New Mexico Historic Sites (formerly State Monuments) division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.On June 4, 2005, a new museum designed by ...
The story of Fort Sumner and the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation is one of Manifest Destiny regardless, a callous government policy, the heartless destruction of Indian nations, and an ill-conceived experiment in social engineering doomed to fail. And it did. In 1991, New Mexico State Monuments and the Museum of New Mexico, with strong support from Navajo and Mescalero Apache leaders, began ...
On October 31, 1862, Congress authorized the establishment of the military Fort Sumner at Bosque Redondo, to protect a new Indian Reservation situated on 40 square miles of land. The post was named for General Edwin Vose Sumner who died as the new fort was being built.
New Mexico Tourism Department. 491 Old Santa Fe Trail. Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
P.O. Box 180 - 173 East Avenue C | Fort Sumner, NM 88119 | (575) 355‑2401 | (575) 355‑7941 (fax)
If you're a more budget-conscious traveler, then you may want to consider traveling to Fort Sumner between March and May, when hotel prices are generally the lowest.
Billy the Kid Museum, 1435 E Sumner Ave (2mi east of downtown Fort Sumner), ☏ +1 575-355-2380, info@billythekidmuseumfortsumner.com. 8:30AM-5PM (closed Sundays Oct-May 15th). Celebrates the life of the outlaw and holds over 60,000 relics of the local area. Free parking.
