Historical Marker
Sunnyside Springs
Nearby is a "sweet water" spring which has been used though the centuries by Plains Indians, Spanish Explorers, and most recently, ranchers and settlers. A stagecoach station was located at the spring, which was named after Sunnyside, the nearby settlement whose name was changed to Fort Sumner in 1910.
New Mexico was the birthplace of several famous figures in American history, including the outlaw Billy the Kid, the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the astronaut Harrison Schmitt, who was one of the last men to walk on the moon.