File:First Floor Plan, Reflected Ceiling Plan, Northwest Elevation, Adobe Bricks, and Torreon Isometric - Santa Rita del Cobre Fort, Santa Rita (historical), Grant County, NM HABS NM-197 (sheet 2 of 2).png

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First Floor Plan, Reflected Ceiling Plan, Northwest Elevation, Adobe Bricks, and Torreon Isometric - Santa Rita del Cobre Fort, Santa Rita (historical), Grant County, NM
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Title
First Floor Plan, Reflected Ceiling Plan, Northwest Elevation, Adobe Bricks, and Torreon Isometric - Santa Rita del Cobre Fort, Santa Rita (historical), Grant County, NM
Depicted place New Mexico; Grant County; Santa Rita (historical)
Date 2002
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS NM-197 (sheet 2 of 2)
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  • STORED ON SITE. mchr
  • Significance: In 1804, the Spanish King bequeathed to Don Francisco Manuel de Elgua a grant to the Santa Rita del Cobre, a copper mine of such riches that the metal was found in native copper sheets - planchas de cobre - on the surface. Located deep in Apache territory, the mine's shipments of copper were protected by presidial soldiers from Janos for the four hundred-mile, mule-back journey to Chihuahua City. Although some type of fortification existed from the start of operations, Mexican records suggest that the large, triangular adobe fort was built ca. 1834.

After the Mexican-American War, U.S. boundary commissioner John Bartlett, who used the site as his field base camp for 8 months, described the building: "it is triangular in form, with circular towers on the corners. It is built of adobe, with walls from three to four feet in thickness, and a single opening on the eastern side." U.S. troops with Bartlett called the fort Cantonment Dawson. During 1852, the troops renamed the structure Fort Webster and used it to protect overland travelers bound for California. When miners reopened the copper works in 1858, the fort was again used for defense; the last recorded Apache attack on Santa Rita occurred in May 1869. Subsequently the fort fell into disuse. The corner of the fort nearest the creek was washed away by floods. The remainder of the building was used as a powder magazine, a storehouse, and a jail. With the introduction of large scale, open-pit mining in the 1910s the structure further deteriorated. By 1920, only the east tower stood. The Chino Mines Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation maintained the remaining tower and used it for storage. In 1952, it was removed prior to open-pit mining of the ground it once occupied.

  • Survey number: HABS NM-197
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1834 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1852 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1952 Subsequent Work
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Phelps Dodge Mining Company
de Elgua, Francisco Manual
Kennecott Copper Corporation, Owner
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/nm0227.sheet.00002a
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Object location32° 48′ 13″ N, 108° 03′ 37.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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