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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOND_girls-dormitory-120_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
During the first decade of the Theodore Roosevelt School, girls were housed in the old fort hospital. Since the old barracks that housed the boys was inadequate, a new boys' dormitory was scheduled for construction in 1931. Before that constructio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMONC_t-r-school-cafeteria-119_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
This stone cafeteria building was constructed in 1948-1949 to serve the students of the Theodore Roosevelt School. It is the last building constructed here that is part of the Fort Apache Historic District. Before the construction of this building…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMONB_theodore-roosevelt-school-118_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
On January 24, 1923 an act was passed by Congress authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain an Indian boarding school on the site of Fort Apache. The first students were Dine' (Navajo) children brought from the Navajo Res…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMONA_boys-dormitory-116_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
The Boys' Dormitory was constructed in 1932. Located on the east end of the fort's Parade Ground, it is on the site of earlier military structures including a telegraph office. Sandstone was quarried for the building's construction from a site abo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMON9_barracks-115_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
These ruins represent the last surviving enlisted men's barracks, on the east end of Barracks Row. Much like Officer's Row defined the north side of the Parade Ground, Barracks Row made up the south side. This adobe barracks was one of two complet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOLK_barracks-row_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
Throughout the military history of Fort Apache, enlisted men were housed with their units to the south of Officers' Row. The first company quarters, completed in February 1871, were 18 by 20 foot log squad huts built in rows running north and sout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOLJ_old-guard-house-115a_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
The first guardhouse at Fort Apache was built of logs and located on this site. In 1876, this stone building - the second oldest surviving structure on the post - was constructed to replace the original log structure. It was replaced as the guardh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOLI_guard-house-114_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
This stone guard house was built around 1891 to replace the earlier, bed-bug infested structure still standing about 300 feet to the west of this site. Placed near the original main entrance to the fort, this building provided housing for guards a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOLH_commissary-storehouse-113_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
Built in 1889 to replace a smaller adobe structure, the Commissary Storehouse served as the Fort's food storage and distribution point until its closure in 1922. A solid building, the storehouse includes a stone cellar that extends three-fourth of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOLG_t-r-school-teachers-quarters-112_Fort-Apache-AZ.html
This house was constructed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs around 1930 to house Theodore Roosevelt School teachers and families. It deviates in style, though not in size, from the typical Officers' Row quarters.
Initially the house had a flat r…