Here stand the reconstructed remains of a seven-room pueblo believed to have been built by Pueblo Indians from New Mexico. Spanish records say that Indians from Taos and Picuris Pueblos, fleeing Spanish rule, joined their Apache allies at a place the Spanish called El Cuartelejo. The Taos Indians came in the 1640s, but several years later Spanish soldiers forced them to return to New Mexico. In 1696 the Picuris settled here, but Juan de Ulibarri returned them to New Mexico in 1706. Later Herbert and Eliza Steele owned the property and in 1898 invited scientists to investigate a low mound where artifacts and burned corn had been found. Excavation uncovered stone and bone tools, pottery from the pueblos of the Southwest, large quantities of burned corn, and the stone foundation of an adobe pueblo. No other pueblo sites have been located this far north and east. In 1970 the foundation was rebuilt to appear as it had when discovered in 1898. The site is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and designated a National Historic Landmark.