Text of the sign: Blazer's Mill - An early fight in the Lincoln County War occurred near this sawmill on April 5, 1878, when several men of the McSween faction, including Dick Brewer and Billy the Kid, attempted to arrest Buckshot Roberts. Roberts and Brewer were killed, and two others wounded, in the battle that followed.
They put the sign there because they didn't want people trampling on the actual site... Some people are so weird and will look to politicize anything and everything.