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Gachado Well and Line Camp

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Built
  
1917 (1917)

Opened
  
1917

Added to NRHP
  
2 November 1978

NRHP Reference #
  
78000348

Area
  
8,000 m²

Nearest city
  
Lukeville

Gachado Well and Line Camp

The Gachado Well was excavated between 1917 and 1919 near the Arizona-Mexico border in Pima County, Arizona. Named after a stooped mesquite tree, the well served a ranch owned by Lonald Blankenship. The line camp and water rights were sold in 1919 to Robert Louis Gray, who built an adobe house at the site in 1930. The house became a line camp, a bunkhouse for cowboys on the range in that area. The camp was used until 1976, when the Grays discontinued ranching. The site is located within Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. It is accessible via the rough, unpaved Camino de Dos Republicas, which also leads to Dos Lomitas Ranch, another family Gray property.

The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1978.

References

Gachado Well and Line Camp Wikipedia