Fort Selden State Monument
1865-1891
Fort Selden was established to protect settlers and railroad construction crews in the Mesilla Valley and the Jornada del Muerto from Apaches. The first regular army troops to garrison it were four companies of the black 125th Infantry. General Douglas MacArthur spent two years of his childhood here. The Fort was finally abandoned in 1891.
Marker is on Interstate 25 at milepost 22.8, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
