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Fort Whipple Museum has artifacts and historical displays about the fort and hospital, including medical instruments, Army weaponry, the Buffalo Soldiers, maps, and photographs. The museum is operated as a joint project of the Sharlot Hall Museum and the Northern Arizona VA Health Care System, Bob Stump VA Medical Center in Prescott, Arizona.
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Fort Whipple was a tactical base for the United States Cavalry during the Indian Wars of 1864–1882. The fort was named after Lt. Amiel Whipple who was the first to discover and establish access to gold fields nearby. This new gold created conflict in the area and Fort Whipple was used to protect miners and settlers from raids.
The boundaries for the original territory, if they had kept their same size, would have made present-day Las Vegas part of Arizona. In 1867, though, Congress transferred the Arizona Territory's northwestern corner, specifically most of its land west of the Colorado River, to the state of Nevada. [10] This reduced the territory to its current area.
Fort Whipple may refer to: Fort Whipple, Arizona, first capital of Arizona Territory; Fort Whipple, Virginia, historical name for the U.S. Army's Fort Myer;
After a month, Goodwin took a party of 84, including a military escort, to explore the area and search for a better location. He decided to move Fort Whipple 14 miles (23 km) south to its present location on Granite Creek and established the territorial capital two miles further south in what became Prescott. Goodwin's decision was relayed to ...
The Lieutenant referred to Mountain "Dził Nchaa Sí'an" as Mount Graham in his journal and on the map . Lieutenant Colonel Graham, a senior officer in the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, who was his friend. This was the first Arizona county to break the tradition of naming counties for Native Americans. [5]
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