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Fort Lowell 150th Anniversary Celebration
Fort Lowell was active from 1873 to 1891 during the Apache Wars. It is the successor to Camp Lowell, which was located in downtown Tucson from 1866-1873. The soldiers stationed at the fort were responsible for escorting and protecting wagon trains, protecting nearby settlers, guarding supplies, patrolling the border and conducting offensive operations against the Western and Chiricahua Apache tribes. The fort was abandoned at the end of the Apache Wars. Today, the Fort Lowell Museum is managed by the Presidio San AgustÃn del Tucson staff, who are planning a 150th Anniversary Celebration.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Lecture on Military Medicine and 19th Century Amputations
11:30 AM : Tour of Fort Lowell Hospital Ruins
12:15 PM: Remarks by councilman Paul Cunningham
1:00 PM: 4th Cavalry Regimental Band of Fort Lowell Performance
2:00 PM: Lecture on the Quirky Episodes of Danger and Death in the Santa Cruz Valley
ON-GOING:
**Displays by the Mormon Battalion and the Buffalo Soldiers
**Blacksmith demonstrations
**Faro dealer demonstrations
**Re-enactors portraying:
**A Fort Lowell quartermaster who supervises stores or barracks and distributes supplies and
provisions
**Louise Gerard, wife of the Fort Lowell surgeon
**Lola Smith, wife of Fort Lowell quartermaster Gilbert Cole
**Fort Lowell ranchers
**Children’s activities:
**Making a pendant out of soapstone with a traditional-style drill
**Learning about an atlatl and using it to throw arrows
**Play with the toys and games that kids in the fort would have enjoyed
**Learning to write with a quill and ink the way children would have in the fort.
**Councilman Paul Cunningham will be in attendance to visit with constituents.
Event Links
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/1614304-0
