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Fort Huachuca is a United States Army installation, established on 3 March 1877 as Camp Huachuca. The garrison is under the command of the United States Army Installation Management Command . It is in Cochise County in southeast Arizona , approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of the border with Mexico and at the northern end of the Huachuca ...
The Original Fort Headquarters – Built in 1880, Now the Fort Huachuca Museum. The Fort Huachuca Museum opened in 1960 and serves the Fort by collecting, preserving and exhibiting artifacts representing its own history and the larger history of the military in the Southwest. [15] The Old Post Barracks – Built in 1883. They were constructed ...
In 1942, the Mountain View Officers' Club was one of 1,400 buildings built to accommodate Fort Huachuca's Black infantry divisions. The club is the fort's only surviving recreational facility from this time. [3] [4] The club was vacated in 1998 and has since faced multiple threats of demolition. [3]
Huachuca City started out as a stop along the Southern Pacific Railroad.The rail stretched between Tombstone and Patagonia and is no longer in operation today. With the re-opening of Fort Huachuca in 1954, the area began to grow and the community went through several name changes: Campstone Station, Sunset City, and Huachuca Vista, before finally settling on the name Huachuca City. [4]
[6] [23] Sierra Vista annexed Fort Huachuca, a U.S. military base, one of the largest employers in Arizona, and the adjacent community, in 1971. Sierra Vista was the site of the first McDonald's drive thru, which opened in 1975. [25] The owner, Dave Rich, drove the innovative approach to gain the business of the soldiers from nearby Fort Huachuca.
The center was relocated from Ft. Holabird, Maryland to Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1971. The move involved more than 120 moving vans, a unit train and several aircraft. The initial intelligence training facilities were a World War II hospital complex that had not been occupied in several years.
Joseph Dorst Patch was born at Fort Huachuca, Arizona Territory on December 8, 1885, a son of army Captain Alexander McCarrell Patch Sr. and Annie Brownlee (Moore) Patch. [a] [2] [3] Patch's mother was the daughter of William S. Moore, the U.S. congressman who appointed his father to the United States Military Academy. [4]
The Huachuca Mountain area is managed principally by the United States Forest Service (Coronado National Forest) (41%) and the U.S. Army (Fort Huachuca) (20%), with much of the rest being private land (32%). Sierra Vista is the main population center (43,888 inhabitants as of the 2010 Census).