Fort Lowell

Largest of the early Arizona military installations

this was the supply base for military posts in southern Arizona during the long warfare against the Apaches. Built in 1873, it was Gen. Nelson A. Miles' headquarter in the final campaign against Geronimo, ...

Chapel of San Pedro at Fort Lowell

A tiny chapel, built here in 1915, served the Barriada del Rillito, a community now called El Fuerte. The fifteen immigrant Mexican families of this village gathered outside under mesquite trees to hear Mass. In 1917, Senora Josefa de Mule ...

Fort Lowell

The military post, established in 1862

near downtown Tucson, was moved to

this location in 1873. One of many

active forts on the Arizona frontier,

Lowell served also as a major supply

depot, influencing the economy and

social life of the community. At its

peak in the ...