Off His Rocker
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Off His Rocker
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Image is a bedroom at Fort Verde State Historic Park in Camp Verde, Arizona. Light is streaming through the curtained window, casting shadows of the rocker, book, chamber pot and iron bed.
Fort Verde State Historic Park in Camp Verde, Arizona is a small park that preserves parts of the Apache Wars-era fort as it appeared in the 1880s. The park was established in 1970 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places a year later.
Settlers in the mid-19th century near the Verde River grew corn and other crops with the prospect of getting good prices from nearby Prescott, which was the territorial capital, and from nearby miners. The rapid increase in population for the mining economy disrupted the hunting and gathering environments of the local native American tribes, the Dilzhe'e Apache and Yavapai. Consequently, they raided the farmers' crops for food. The farmers requested military protection from the United States Army and, in 1865, although Arizona was still only a territory, the infantry arrived. They set up several posts in the area over the next few years. After approximately 1,500 local natives were placed on a reservation in 1872, the army's role changed from protecting the settlers to ensuring that the Indians stayed on the reservation. The fort was never enclosed by walls or stockades and it never saw fighting on site. At its height, it consisted of twenty-two buildings, only four of which survived until 1956, when local citizens created a small museum in the administration building. They later donated the buildings and ten acres as a state park.
Some of the buildings were built with pice, which is large adobe slabs cast within wooden frames rather than assembled from the more familiar individual adobe bricks.
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