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grew up around the springs providing lodging, a general store and a post office. After
Antonio Joseph died in 1910, his family further developed the property as well as bottled and sold mineral water from the springs. While the springs originally accepted those with tuberculosis in 1903, by 1910, the
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which roughly translates to "village at the place of the green bubbling hot springs". The
Puebloan village housed more than 1,000 people and contained numerous structures. It is thought to have been abandoned in the 16th century due to an epidemic. Other Native peoples used the springs as well,
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There are seven developed soaking pools, and a seasonal mud pool; each has its own specific mineral content. The soaking pools include the Iron Spring, Arsenic Spring, Lithia Spring and Soda Spring, among others. There are several other warm and cold springs between Ojo
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The hot mineral water emerges from the five springs in the Ojo
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roof beams. In 1868, the Joseph's opened the hot springs as a natural health spa. Another account states that Joseph opened the resort in 1880. The anthropologist, Nancy Owen Lewis writes in her book,
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The hot springs are approximately one hour North of Santa Fe by car; from Taos, they are a 45 minute drive
Southwest. They are located off of NM-414 across the Rio Ojo Caliente, near the village of
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one quarter mile North of the hot springs. The barn is architecturally significant because it is the only round barn in the United States constructed from adobe.
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who referred to the springs as a "natural curiosity". The hot springs were first recorded in geologic publications in 1875.
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soldiers, soaked in the healing water. In 1534, the Spanish colonizer
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