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Places, Earth
Fort Yuma
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Fort Yuma
All photographs taken by Kenneth A. Larson. All rights reserved. © 2003 - 2009.
The first occupation of this site by Europeans was the short lived Mission Purísima Concepción, established in 1780. After the destruction of the Mission on July 17 to 19, 1781 by abused Indians, the site lay abandoned until 1849. It was in this year that the U. S. Military Post Camp Calhoun was established. After a fire destroyed the buildings, they were rebuilt by 1855. The name became Camp Yuma in 1852 and Fort Yuma following the reconstruction. Fort Yuma was along the shore of the Colorado River on a hill top with a commanding view of the surrounding countryside. The Fort Yuma Quartermaster at Yuma Crossing and the Yuma Territorial Prison were across the river on the Arizona side. The site was transferred to the Department of the Interior and the Quechan Indian Tribe in 1884 after which it became a boarding school operated by the Catholic church until 1900. Today, the site contains Saint Thomas Indian Mission (established 1919 and dedicated 1923), class rooms, Tribal Police, other service buildings, and the Quechan Museum.
California Registered Historic Landmark number 806.
Quechan Museum. Photo date: 3-12-05.
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Quechan Museum. Photo date: 3-12-05.
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Quechan Museum. Photo date: 3-12-05.
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Quechan Museum. Photo date: 3-12-05.
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Quechan Tribal Facility Building. Photo date: 3-12-05.
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Quechan Tribal Facility Building. Photo date: 3-12-05.
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