FORT STANTON
Fort Stanton (built 1855) was a U.S. military fort built in New Mexico in the United States. It was established to protect settlements along the Rio Bonito in the Apache Wars. Kit Carson, John "Black Jack" Pershing, Billy the Kid, and Buffalo Soldiers of the 8th and 9th Cavalry all lived here.
The Mescalero Apache live in the area near the Fort.
Fort Stanton property became America's first federal tuberculosis hospital. In World War II it interned both German and Japanese.
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External links
★ Friends of Fort Stanton historical page
★ Fort Stanton, Lincoln County New Mexico
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