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HOTELS

Swiss Chalet

Holiday Express

Travelodge

Budget Lodge/Executive Suites

The Lodge

Motel 6

Best Western Ruidoso Inn

RESTAURANTS

Michelena's

Can't Stop Smoking

Lucy's

Great Wall of China

Landlock

Cafe Rio

email: fortstanton@gmail.com

Fort Stanton (built 1855) was a U.S. military fort built in New Mexico in the United States. It was established to protect settlements along the Rio Bonito in the Apache Wars. Kit Carson, John "Black Jack" Pershing, Billy the Kid, and Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry regiments all lived here. Most of the cavalry and infantry regiments were here at one time or other.

The Mescalero Apache live in the area near the Fort.

Fort Stanton property became America's first federal tuberculosis hospital. In World War II it interned both German and Japanese.

Today, Fort Stanton is a popular site for military reenactments and recreational horse riding. It has over 360 miles of trails and is the venue of an annual endurance riding event that has grown to be 6 days long. Fort Stanton is on BLM land surrounded by the Smokey Bear Ranger District of the Lincoln National Forest.

In September of 2008, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson established Fort Stanton as a living history venue, Fort Stanton State Monument.

Volunteers Needed!

Fort Stanton LIVE! Call:

Clinton Smith 575.258.5702

pcscm58@windstream.net

Museum Docents Call:

Peggy Whittemore 575.336.1436

pegw@windstream.net

WANTED  

RE-ENACTORS FOR LIVING HISTORY PRESENTATIONS

NM Sons of the Confederate Veterans

SCV (Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp - Capt. James Walker #3002) Recruitment

Photo by Adele Karolik