Think about how long ago this was – 1854. On that year Fort Davis was first established, named after the then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The Fort was placed on the east side of the Davis Mountains, which at the time was a location with plenty of water, food, and resources. For almost thirty years, the troops assigned here fought the Apaches and the Comanches, protecting travelers on their way west to California. Fort Davis, therefore, is an important part of the Indian Wars history. By 1891 Fort Davis had “outlived its usefulness” and ordered abandoned. (By 1880 the last bunch of Apaches had been forced into Mexico.) It wasn’t until seventy years later, in 1961, that Fort Davis was authorized as a national historic site. Today, the ruins of a hundred buildings remain –
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