Edgerton has always been the halting spot for tourists who visit Monument Park. The park formations were described by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, better possibly, than by the innumerable pens which have followed him. He says: "I found the formation to consist of peculiar friable conglomerate. Some of the pillars were nearly cylindrical, others were long cones, and a number were spindle shaped, or like a berry set on end. They were surmounted by capitals of remarkable projection beyond their base. The conglomeration of the shafts was an irregular mixture of fragments from all the hypogene rocks of the range, including quartzose pebbles, pure crystals of silex, various crystalline sandstone, gneiss, solitary hornblend and feldspar, nodular iron stones, rude agates and gun flint, the whole loosely cemented in a matrix, composed of clay, lime, and red oxide of iron. The disk which formed the largely projecting capital seemed to represent the original diameter of the pillar, and apparently retained its proportions in virtue of a much closer texture and larger per cent, of iron in its composition." The park occupies a tract nine miles long and about two miles wide. A similar formation is found at Austin Bluffs. The monuments are from fourteen to twenty feet high, and appear like yellowish white statues; a troop of soldiers forms a guard round a ruined temple. Here is an anvil, and a priest with attendant men. At the "Quaker Wedding," hatted preacher weds hatted groom to a bride with a crumbling coiffure, and friends in broad brims throng near.

A ranch near Edgerton was the scene of the most terrible and mysterious murder ever committed in El Paso. In 1886 lived there an elderly lady, Mrs. Kearney and her sixyear old grandson, James Hand. His widowed mother left him with his grandmother, while she was studying for the stage in Boston. The two lived quietly together, and occasionally Mrs. Kearney took her grandson to Denver, and the ranch was closed. So its air of desertion created no comment, until it was noticed by the scattered neighbors that Mrs. Kearney came no more to buy eggs, etc. The house was searched, and found vacant. The seekers proceeded to the barn; it was observed that the door, which had been secured inside, had been burst in from without. Inside the door lay the body of Mrs. Kearney, her skull cleft with an ax. In a grain box beyond was found the mutilated body of the child. It was supposed the murderer had attacked his victims in the house, and that they had vainly sought safety in the barn, but were there pursued and killed.

A table spread for a meal in the house was set for three. The murderer has never been traced, and it is a discreditable fact in El Paso's annals that no public reward was offered for his apprehension (the Hand family offered five hundred dollars reward), and that such a crime has heretofore gone unpunished.

In early days Edgerton suffered much from Indian depredations. A small fortified house was constructed there as a refuge for women and children.