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    Fort Union

    National Monument New Mexico

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Fort Union National Monument: An Administrative History

 
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Historic Resource Study, 1993: "Fort Union and the Frontier Army of the Southwest" [PDF, 7204 KB]

FORT UNION AND THE FRONTIER ARMY IN THE SOUTHWEST:
A Historic Resource Study, 1993
Fort Union National Monument
Fort Union, New Mexico

By
Leo E. Oliva
 
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Fort Union Ethnographic Overview and Assessment

Did You Know?

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Freemasons were among the first to advocate for the preservation of Fort Union, the site where two Masonic lodges had been founded. On January 23, 1929, the members of Chapman Lodge No. 2 at Las Vegas (one of the lodges which had its origins at Fort Union in 1862) selected a committee to "have Fort Union declared a national monument."