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Fort Grant is a state prison and a former United States Army fortification in the U.S. state of Arizona. Fort Grant is located on the southwestern slope of Mount Graham in what is now Graham County. The post is named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States. [1]
The Camp Grant massacre, on April 30, 1871, was an attack on Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches who surrendered to the United States Army at Camp Grant, Arizona, along the San Pedro River. The massacre led to a series of battles and campaigns fought between the Americans, the Apache, and their Yavapai allies, which continued into 1875, the most notable ...
The site of "old" Camp Grant at the junction of Aravaipa Creek and the San Pedro River is near the current location of the Aravaipa campus of the Central Arizona College. The "new" Fort Grant under Mount Graham is no longer an army post, but has been integrated into the Arizona State Prison system, administered from Safford, Arizona.
In 1968, the Arizona State Legislature passed a bill making the Fort Grant State Industrial School a part of the State's Department of Corrections. In 1973, Fort Grant became an adult male prison. In December 1997, the Arizona State Prison at Fort Grant became the Fort Grant Unit of ASPC-Safford.
Two or three days after that, Captain James M. Bell, 7th Cavalry, sent Lieutenant Sedgwick Rice out from Fort Grant, Arizona with three Apache Scouts and four soldiers. They first headed for San Simon Station, a town in San Simon Valley, and then south through the Peloncillos.
Texas A&M-Fort Worth will receive a $2.5 million grant from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation for its engineering programs, the university announced Monday. ... “The establishment of Texas A&M ...
Catered to Fort Grant: Boyles: Carpenter Greenlee: 1904: 1908: Barren site: Farming and ranching community at the mouth of the Blue River (Arizona) [9] Bradshaw City: Yavapai: c. 1860: c. 1880: Barren site: Town supported the Tiger Mine. Namesake of its founder, William D. Bradshaw. Brigham City [10] Navajo: 1876: 1881: Historic site
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