Address Restricted, Scott City, Kansas. County/parish: Scott.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000351.
26 contributing sites.Also known as:
El Cuartelejo, or El Quartelejo (from Spanish cuartelejo, meaning old building or barracks), is a region in eastern Colorado and western Kansas where Plains Apache cohabited with Puebloans. Subject to religious persecution, Puebloans fled the Spanish Nuevo México territory and cohabitated with the Cuartelejo villagers in the 1600s.
Some people fled to the Arkansas River area of present-day Kiowa County, Colorado. Juan de Ulibarrà came to the Arkansas River area of Colorado in 1706 to capture and return Pueblo Native Americans who fled Nuevo Mexico in 1680.
In Kansas, an archeological district is the site of a Plains Apache and Puebloan village. It is the northernmost Native American pueblo and the only known pueblo in Kansas. Located in Lake Scott State Park, the remains of the stone and adobe pueblo are situated 13 miles north of Scott City, Kansas, in Ladder Creek Canyon. It is also known as The Scott County Pueblo.
In 1964, El Cuartelejo Archaeologist District (14SC1) was designated a National Historic Landmark. Of the 26 archaeological sites, most are from Apache of the Dismal River culture of prehistoric, proto-historic and early historic periods from about 1450 until the mid-1700s. This group of Apache are called the Cuartelejo band.
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