Description
Archaeological Research Service, Inc. recently completed an archaeological evaluation of a small portion of an early 19th century Mexican land grant located near Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona. The San Bernardino Grant property was acquired by Ignacio de Perez in 1822; Perez abandoned the grant in the early 1830’s due to Indian hostilities. During the period from the mid-1880’s until about 1920 the property was owned by John H. Slaughter, an Anglo rancher and Sheriff of Cochise County. The Nature Conservancy acquired the property in 1980 and subsequently sold its interest to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest, Inc