HISTORIC SITES | March 2024

[caption id="attachment_34574" align="alignnone" width="810"] Black troopers known as Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Stanton played a key role in the transition of New Mexico from a territory into a state. In recognition of the site’s significance to Black History, the National Park Service recently added the Fort Stanton Historic Site to its Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. The site joins 107 listings across 28 states that highlight Black stories from the last half of the nineteenth century.[/caption]

In 1876 Buffalo Soldiers built the Fort Stanton Laundress Quarters which still stands at the site and is one of the few surviving structures directly associated with the Black troops. The fort and the structure are some of the most important Black History Sites in New Mexico.

The 240-acre Fort Stanton New Mexico Historic Site is open Thursday through Monday 10:00 a.m. until 4 p.m.