NATIONAL GUARD AND U.S. ARMY
35th INFANTRY CAMP
(AZ EE:9:109[ASM] and AZ EE:9:108[ASM])
Archival and documentary sources provided researchers from the
Arizona State Museum’s Cultural Resource Management Division
(now defunct) with a great deal of information about this early
twentieth century military encampment. Newspaper stories from two
local weeklies of the time, The Nogales Daily Herald and
The Border Vidette, proved to be invaluable sources for
anecdotes about the camp and other details of daily life. Unfortunately,
much of the material evidence from this site had been disturbed
or removed by amateur collectors, forever lost to scientific and
historical analysis. Nevertheless, ASM archaeologists recovered
a few significant items during their 1987 fieldwork that offered
a limited picture of the site’s inhabitants.
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photograph of the U.S. Army Camp. Courtesy of the Arizona Historical
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Two sites comprised of distinct areas of archaeological debris were
recorded; both were associated with the 1916 encampment. The recovered
artifacts came primarily from a latrine and two trash dumps—however
unpleasant they may sound, such features often prove to be archaeological
gold mines.
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