Fort Bayard Historic District

Coordinates: 32°47′47″N 108°8′56″W / 32.79639°N 108.14889°W / 32.79639; -108.14889
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Fort Bayard Historic District
Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, et al.
NRHP reference No.02000726[1]
NMSRCP No.1803
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJuly 7, 2002
Designated NHLDMarch 19, 2004[2]
Designated NMSRCPJuly 20, 2001

The Fort Bayard Historic District encompasses the area that was the location of Fort Bayard, a United States Army military installation north of present-day Santa Clara, New Mexico. Founded in 1866, the fort at first provided security (mainly by African-American "Buffalo Soldiers") against Native American attacks on settlers during the settlement of the region in the 19th century. It was then converted into the army's first tuberculosis sanitarium, and later became a VA hospital. The property is now the Fort Bayard Medical Center, a long-term nursing care facility operated by the state of New Mexico. The only surviving 19th-century elements of the fort are some of its landscaping, and the Fort Bayard National Cemetery.[3] The site was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2004.[2]

History

Fort Bayard was established as a

John Pershing arrived at Fort Bayard and oversaw the installation of a heliograph, linking the fort to an Army communications network from Arizona to Texas.[4]

Fort Bayard was one of many installations throughout the Southwest that was garrisoned by the so-called

Buffalo Soldiers. Company B of the 25th United States Colored Infantry Regiment established the post, and they were joined by other black units, including troops from the 9th Cavalry Regiment. Corporal Clinton Greaves, stationed at Fort Bayard with C Company, 9th Cavalry Regiment, received the Medal of Honor
for his actions against Apache raiders on January 24, 1877. A monument to the Buffalo Soldiers was erected on the old parade field of Fort Bayard in 1992.

Following the capture of

U.S. Public Health Service
to administer Hospital No. 55., a veterans' tuberculosis hospital. In 1922 the hospital became the part of the Veterans Bureau.

The fort was partially reactivated as a military installation during World War II. A number of German prisoners of war were held at the fort from 1943 to 1945. The fort is now administered by the New Mexico Department of Health as Fort Bayard Medical Center, a long-term care nursing facility that also contains a chemical dependency treatment center.[6][7]

Fort Bayard is located 0.5 miles (800 m) north of the intersection of

United States Route 180 and New Mexico State Road 152,[3] near Bayard, New Mexico
.

The fort c. 1909

Notable soldiers stationed at Fort Bayard

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "National Historic Landmarks Survey, New Mexico" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  3. ^ a b David Kammer (March 31, 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Fort Bayard; United States General Hospital for Tuberculosis; Veterans Administration Hospital #55" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "History of fort bayard". Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Lectures on Tuberculosis, Fort Bayard 1910-1914". National Library of Medicine.
  6. ^ History of Ft. Bayard
  7. ^ "Fort Bayard Medical Center". Archived from the original on 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
  8. ^ Army and Navy Register, April 21, 1906, 17.

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