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Stop #7A Flagstaff, AZ

The area was known before the town developed as Antelope Spring, referring to a spring near what is now Mars Hill. The commonly accepted story dates the name to July 4, 1876. A group of emigrants from Boston camped in the area while traveling west.

Stop #6 Mesa Verde National Park, CO

Step House is especially significant because it demonstrates that people used the same alcove during two very different periods. Earlier inhabitants constructed pithouses there around 700 CE, while a later community built a 27-room masonry