Kit Carson - Museums and Honors

Museums and Honors

The Kit Carson House in Taos, New Mexico, is a U.S.-designated National Historic Landmark. It is operated as a museum.

The Kit Carson Museum in Las Animas, Colorado, is located in an adobe building that was built in 1940 to hold German prisoners of war captured in North Africa during World War II. The museum houses artifacts relating to Bent County, Colorado covering the period from the days of Kit Carson, through World War II. It is scheduled to move into a new facility, once completed.

Fort Garland, located within the city of the same name in Colorado, was the location where Kit Carson briefly re-located his family while he served as commandant of a company of roughly 100 New Mexico Volunteers in 1866-1867. It includes original adobe buildings that house a reconstruction of Carson's commandant quarters. The site is a U.S.-designated National Historic Landmark, and is operated as the "Fort Garland Museum".

The Kit Carson Chapel, located in Fort Lyon, Colorado, was constructed from the stones of the surgeons' quarters where he died. It is open to the public.

In Rayado, NM, the Kit Carson Museum is operated as a living museum, staffed by nearby Philmont Scout Ranch interpreters.

San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park, located near Escondido, California, is a California State Park which honors the memory of the participants from both the United States and Mexico, including Kit Carson, who contested the Battle of San Pasqual on December 5–6, 1846 during the Mexican-American War. The State Park includes a visitor's center that in addition to housing exhibits and a film about the battle, also includes information about the cultural history of the San Pasqual Valley. The State Park also hosts living history presentations, which once a year in December includes a recreation of the battle itself.

A partial list of places named after Carson:

• Carson City, the capital of Nevada
• Carson National Forest, in northern New Mexico
• Carson Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
• Carson River, flowing from California to Nevada, ending in the Carson Sink
• Carson Trail, a branch of the California Trail
• Carson Valley, Nevada
• Fort Carson, an Army post in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Kit Carson, California (on the east shore of Silver Lake)
• Kit Carson, Colorado (on US 287 about 200 miles (320 km) south and east of Denver)
• Kit Carson County, located in eastern Colorado
• Kit Carson Elementary School, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Kit Carson Elementary School, Blount County, Tennessee (no longer used) Lat 35d50'59.72"N, Long 83d59'7.30"W
• Kit Carson Elementary School, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Kit Carson Elementary School, Richmond, Kentucky
• Kit Carson Memorial State Park, Taos, New Mexico
• Kit Carson Middle School, Sacramento, California
• Kit Carson Mountain and Kit Carson Peak, its highest point, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado
• Kit Carson Park, Albuquerque, New Mexico (alongside the Rio Grande)
• Kit Carson Park, Escondido, California
• Kit Carson Road, Monterey, California
• Kit Carson Way (Oregon Route 39) is a major expressway in Klamath Falls, Oregon
• Kit Carson Way, Vallejo, California
• Kit Carson Union School District, Hanford, California
• Kit Carson, a campsite at Woodland Trails Scout Reservation, Camden, Ohio
• Kit Carson, a campsite at Yawgoog Scout Reservation, Rockville, RI
• Mount Kit Carson, Spokane County, Washington