What Is Milagro Ridge?
Milagro Ridge started as Milagro Pueblo, one of many Ancestral
Pueblo sites on the south ridge of an 80 acre historic homestead on Goodman
Point, Montezuma County, Colorado.
Milagro Pueblo, a Prudden Unit Pueblo, was tree ring
dated to 1210 CE (Common Era) or AD, but in fact was declared a pithouse
remodel by Don Simonis, a BLM archaeologist from SE Utah. Lorna LaDage, currently the property owner
and caretaker, along with her partner Joe Lantz, began calling the south
property line, Milagro Ridge. From the
Spanish word for ‘miracle’, Milagro Ridge seemed an appropriate moniker for the
pristine stretch of Great Sage Plain containing prehistoric sites dating from
Basketmaker III to Pueblo III (500-1300 CE), from the revised Pecos
Classification timeline for the Mesa Verde region (Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center)
Mission Statement
Gail LaDage
Joe Lantz