Tuzigoot National Monument

This picture was taken at the Tuzigoot National Monument located just outside of Clarkdale, Arizona on Route 89A.  The Pueblo rooms shown in the photo sheltered single Southern Sinagua Indian families and were used mainly for sleeping and eating.  Limestone and sandstone deposits from the ridge provided the building materials for the walls, while Juniper, Pine and Cottonwood trees were hauled up the hillsides for roof support.  At its most productive time in the late 1300s it housed 225 people.  Tuzigoot is an Apache name for crooked water.