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  • 242. Santa Clara Cemetery

    Metal arched sign over the entrance to a cemetery.
    Santa Clara Cemetery, Wagon Mound, NM

    Wagon Mound is a village in Mora County, New Mexico, United States. It is named after and located at the foot of a butte called Wagon Mound, which was a landmark for covered wagon trains and traders going up and down the Santa Fe Trail and is now Wagon Mound National Historic Landmark. The shape of the mound is said to resemble a Conestoga wagon and you can easily see it traveling north or south on I-25.

    Charles Fraker, a Santa Fe Trail traveler, was buried in this cemetery. His headstone is pictured below.

    Close up of white gravestones in a cemetery at the base of a tall land formation known as Wagon Mound..
    Gravestone of Santa Fe Traveler Charles Fraker