REDISCOVERING CAMP NACO City of BISBEE CAMP CAMP NACO is on the National Trust for Hidtoric Preservation's list of eleven most endangered historic places in 2022 NAC Arizona CO Photo credit: Bisbee Mining and History Museum & Gerald Lamb Camo NacoFriends CONTACT: campnaco@bizbeeaz.gov 520.432.6012 DONATE: archeologysouthwest.org/projects/naco/ was manned by the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry of Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Huachuca to keep hostilities from the Mexican Revolution from spilling across the border. In 1919 the US War Department made it a permanent installation. Part of a 1,200-mile chain of permanent military camps along the border from Texas, to Arizona, Camp Naco was one of only two constructed of adobe and the only one still standing. The camp was decommissioned in 1924 but repurposed for a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in the 1930s. It returned to CAMP NACO STORY MAP private ownership in 1960 and is now owned by the City of Bisbee. Arizona ATES M al M South All min www www wwwm Che Fan UNITED STATES MERICO googlemap REDISCOVERING CAMP NACO City of BISBEE CAMP CAMP NACO is on the National Trust for Hidtoric Preservation's list of eleven most endangered historic places in 2022 NAC Arizona CO Photo credit : Bisbee Mining and History Museum & Gerald Lamb Camo NacoFriends CONTACT : campnaco@bizbeeaz.gov 520.432.6012 DONATE : archeologysouthwest.org/projects/naco/ was manned by the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry of Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Huachuca to keep hostilities from the Mexican Revolution from spilling across the border . In 1919 the US War Department made it a permanent installation . Part of a 1,200 - mile chain of permanent military camps along the border from Texas , to Arizona , Camp Naco was one of only two constructed of adobe and the only one still standing . The camp was decommissioned in 1924 but repurposed for a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp in the 1930s . It returned to CAMP NACO STORY MAP private ownership in 1960 and is now owned by the City of Bisbee . Arizona ATES M al M South All min www www wwwm Che Fan UNITED STATES MERICO googlemap