Dragoon Springs Stage Station Site

Dragoon Springs Stage Station Site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Dragoon Springs is an historic site in what is now Cochise County, Arizona, at an elevation of . The name comes from a nearby natural spring, Dragoon Spring, to the south in the Dragoon Mountains at (). The name originates from the 3rd U.S. Cavalry Dragoons who battled the Chiricahua, including Cochise, during the Apache Wars. The Dragoons established posts around 1856 after the Gadsden Purchase made the area a U.S. territory. Read more on Wikipedia

type: NRHP
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