Spanish and Native History

We visited a presidio this afternoon.  A presidio is a Spanish garrison to protect land and their missions.  There isn't much left of the actual buildings, but it's interesting to see the archeological dig at the site.  The state park also had buildings and items from different time periods. 

This an old mining design that breaks up silver ore for further processing. Animals or people rotated the turnstile and the rocks hanging from the arms broke up the rocks into smaller pieces.

The museum covered all different eras both inside and outside the building.  There was a leather section, a wood shop, a kitchen, and this, a reconstruction of a Spanish soldiers family room.

I loved the grindstones they had.  Cool design.  Reminds me of a galaxy.