Across the Valley | Erosional elements Surviving remains Fort Union adobe walls |
F
orty years of active service encompassing three distinctly different building phases, Fort Union in Northern New Mexico ceased operation on May 15th, 1891. Sixty-three years of neglect and vandalism followed until 1954 with the establishment of the Fort Union National Monument. The main 640 acre park includes remnants of over sixty-five adobe buildings, all components of the third and last phase of the Fort.
“Fort Union, a hundred and ten miles from Santa Fé, is situated in the pleasant valley of the Moro. It is an open post, without either stockades or breastworks of any kind, and, barring the officers and soldiers who are seen about, it has much more the appearance of a quiet frontier village than that of a military station.” - William H. Davis
