Camp Goodwin
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Camp Goodwin, and Fort Goodwin, a historical locale, at an elevation of 2648 feet, located in Graham County, Arizona.[1]
History
Camp Goodwin, then Fort Goodwin, was constructed in June 1864 by the
mosquitoes
in the cienega fed by the nearby spring from which the fort obtained its water. Called Camp Goodwin again from 1866, the camp was abandoned by the Army in March, 1871 due to the illness caused by malaria.
The camp was subsequently used as a subagency of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation until about 1884.[2]
Today the site is located on farmland not far from the ghost town of Geronimo. Nothing remains of the post, the only physical marker is a Bureau of Land Management survey marker which indicates the original site of its flagpole.
External links
- Fort Goodwin from fortwiki.com accessed December 25, 2015.
References
- ^ a b "Camp Goodwin (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Granger, Byrd H. Arizona Place Names. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, 1982, p. 127.
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