Fort Defiance
Inscription
Now in the State of Arizona, but then in the Territory of New Mexico, Fort Defiance was once described as “the most beautiful and interesting post as a whole in New Mexico.” It was established in 1851 to control the Navajos, and abandoned as a military post in 1864.
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