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Encyclopedia > Fort Verde State Historic Park
Commanding officer's house and reenactor playing General Crook

Fort Verde State Historic Park in the town of Camp Verde, Arizona, is a small park that attempts to preserve parts of the Indian Wars-era fort as it appeared in the 1880s. The park was established in 1970 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places a year later. Fort Verde State Historic Park building and reenactor emulating General Crook. ... Fort Verde State Historic Park building and reenactor emulating General Crook. ... Camp Verde is a town located in Yavapai County, Arizona. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...


Settlers in the mid-1800s near the Verde River grew corn and other crops with the prospect of getting good prices from nearby Prescott, which was the territorial capital, and from nearby miners. The rapid increase in population for the mining economy disrupted the hunting and gathering environments of the local Indian tribes, the Dilzhe'e Apache and Yavapai. In turn, they raided the farmers' crops for food. The Verde River is a tributary of the Salt River, approximately 170 mi (273. ... Prescott (pronounced by some locals as press-kit instead of press-cot) is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, USA. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 40,360. ... The Tonto Apache (Apache Dilzhę́’é) (also Dilzhee, Dilzhe’eh Apache) is a one of the groups of Western Apaches and also refers to one of the three dialects of the Western Apache language (a Southern Athabaskan language). ... The Yavapai-Apache Nation is a Native American tribe in the Verde Valley, Arizona. ...


The farmers requested military protection from the U.S. Army and, in 1865, although Arizona was still only a territory, the Infantry arrived. They set up a several posts over the next few years: The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Infantry of the Royal Irish Rifles during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. Infantry are soldiers who fight primarily on foot with small arms in organized military units, though they may be transported to the battlefield by horses, ships, automobiles, skis, bicycles, or other means. ...

  • 1865, a small camp five miles south of what is today Camp Verde.
  • 1866-1871, Camp Lincoln (Arizona), a mile north of today's Fort Verde.
  • 1871-1873, Camp Verde (built gradually from 1871 to 1873)
  • 1879 Camp Verde renamed Fort Verde
  • 1891, Fort Verde abandoned
  • 1899, sold at public auction

After approximately 1500 local Indians were placed on a reservation by 1872, the army's role changed from protecting the settlers to ensuring that the Indians stayed on the reservation. The last major battle with uprising Indians took place in 1882 at the Battle of Big Dry Wash. Reservation may refer to: Reservation, a tract of land set apart for a special purpose: an area for indigenous peoples to live in: Indian reservation Indian reserve (in Canada) Reservation, an area where hunting animals is not permitted. ...


The fort was never enclosed by walls or stockades and never saw fighting on site. At its height, it consisted of 22 buildings, only four of which survived until 1956, when local citizens created a small museum in the administration building. They later donated the buildings and ten acres (40,000 m²) as a State Park.


Some of the buildings were built with pice, which is large adobe slabs cast within wooden frames rather than assembled from the more familiar individual adobe bricks. A Paisa (pl. ... Renewal of the surface coating of an adobe wall in Chamisal, New Mexico Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. ...


References

Fort Verde State Historic Park brochure (1995)


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Fort Verde State Historic Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (366 words)
Fort Verde State Historic Park in the town of Camp Verde, Arizona, is a small park that attempts to preserve parts of the Civil War-era fort as it appeared in the 1880s.
The park was established in 1970 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places a year later.
Settlers in the mid-1800s near the Verde River grew corn and other crops with the prospect of getting good prices from nearby Prescott, which was the territorial capital, and from nearby miners.
Camp Verde, Arizona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (514 words)
The town is located along the I-17 freeway, and as a result most of the local economy involves service stations, restaurants, hotels, and the like.
Camp Verde is surrounded by Prescott National Forest.
The Mogollon Rim is just north of the town and forms the southwestern edge of the large, geographically ancient Colorado Plateau.
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