Fort Craig
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| Fort Craig | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Nearest city: | Socorro County, New Mexico |
| Built/Founded: | 1854 |
| Architect: | Unknown |
| Added to NRHP: | October 15, 1970 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 70000414 [1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
Named for Captain Louis T. Craig, Fort Craig, in Socorro County, New Mexico, was a fort built initially to control Indian raids on commerce and settlers.
Fort Craig was approximately 1,050 feet (320m) east-west by 600 feet (183m) north-south and was located on 40 acres (16 hectares) near the Rio Grande in southeastern New Mexico. It was near the site of the Battle of Valverde, a major Civil War battle between Union troops led by Colonel Edward Canby and Confederate forces of General Henry Sibley.
After the Civil War, Fort Craig was used by the Buffalo Soldiers and General George Crook in the Apache Wars. It was permanently abandoned in 1885.
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.[1]
In 2008, it emerged that 20 bodies had been looted from the cemetery at Fort Craig, and 67 were exhumed and removed by Federal archaeologists to prevent further looting.The exhumations conducted from August to October removed 67 skeletons-39 men, 2 women and 26 infants and children.[2]
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[edit] External links
- Bureau of Land Management Fort Craig site
- Fort Craig, New Mexico
- Fort Craig National Historic Site (sic, but note it is not a National Historic Site, webpage with multiple
recent photos)
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