Coronado Cross

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, a Spanish aristocrat, set out from Mexico in 1540 to locate the famous urban areas of gold. Thirty horsemen, troopers, guides and a Franciscan Friar, Juan de Padilla, who composed a dairy, went with Coronado. Father Juan de Padilla held a mass of thanksgiving on the adjacent slopes, the principal Christian administration held in the inside of the landmass, originating before the arrival of the Pilgrims very nearly 100 years.

Needing to have a perpetual remembrance of the occasion, the Ford County Historical Society supported a cross denoting the area. The task was a Bicentennial exertion, beginning in 1974. The 38-foot tall cross, made of pre-focused on concrete, was raised in June 1975, on a slope in a 10-section of land local grass prairie stop gave by Mrs. Karl Miller and family. Her late spouse, pioneer Judge Karl Miller had lived on the farm where the Coronado Cross now stands. He had stamped one of the slopes with a wooden cross in 1940. The base of the Coronado Cross gives a concise history of Coronado's Expedition and about the Native Americans that lived here.