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CAMP GRANT
By Janice Cottrell, APCRP
Historian
As hostilities with the Apaches increased, Camp Grant was
established in 1856 at the junction of the San Pedro River and Aravaipa Creek, originally
called Camp Aravaipa.
Camp Grant c. 1869
Photo Courtesy: Arizona Historical Society –
Tucson, AZ
In 1871, the Apache agreed to stop hostilities and settle near
the camp. Later that year, the Camp Grant massacre took place; enraged by
continuing raids, a party of Tucson American vigilante group citizens banded together with Tohono O'odham Indians.
They attacked and killed Apaches in their
camp just outside Camp Grant on April 23. All but 8 of the 144 dead were women
and children.
Measurement Conversion
Scale: “1 inch to ten chains” = 1 inch is 660 feet
Camp Grant Courtesy:
Andy Brunson
Camp Grant Cemetery in red box.
Measurement Conversion: 1 Chain = 66 Feet
Map by: Neal Du Shane
Indicates possible general vicinity of Camp
Grant Cemetery
(has not been
physically documented by APCRP)
They
were ravished, wounded, and clubbed to death, hacked to pieces or brained by
rocks. It was one of the most sadistic slaughters ever seen on the frontier.
All the dead were buried around the camp.
Courtesy: Andy Brunson
Camp
Grant was located on the east side of the San Pedro River, north of where the Aravaipa Creek meets the San Pedro River, between Mammouth
and Winkelman, AZ.
Camp Grant was moved in 1872 to the south side of Mount Graham
due to an increase in malarial infections in the troops. Soon after, 1,500 Aravaipa and Pinal Apaches were moved to San Carlos.
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