Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1855/00/00 | Fort Stanton established as a military fort, active until 1896 | |||||
1862/00/00 | Kit Carson | Union Commander | New Mexican Volunteer Union forces, led by US Colonel Kit Carson, re-occupy Fort Stanton | |||
1878/00/00 | Lew Wallace | Peacemaker | Governor Lew Wallace stays at Fort Stanton while negotiating peace in The Lincoln County War. | |||
1880/00/00 | John J Pershing | Post | Junior officer John Pershing will be twice stationed at Fort Stanton. | |||
1899/00/00 | President McKinley transfers Fort Stanton to the Marine Hospital Service to treat sailors, soldiers and marines for tuberculosis. Also known as consumption, 5000 patients were treated by 1953. |
Particulars for Fort Stanton: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Structure Type | Fortification |
Area of Significance | Health-medicine |
Area of Significance | Historic - aboriginal |
Sight Category | Historic District |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Criteria | Information Potential |
Cultural Affiliation | Mescalero Apache |
Area of Significance | Military |
Historic Use | Military Facility |
Level of Significance | National |
Area of Significance | Politics-government |
Confinement Attribute | Prisoner of War |
Area of Significance | Prisoner of War camp |
Owner | State |
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