{"id":869,"date":"2023-07-22T17:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T17:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/?page_id=869"},"modified":"2024-02-10T03:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T03:45:36","slug":"1951-fort-defiance-centennial","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/1951-fort-defiance-centennial\/","title":{"rendered":"1951 Fort Defiance Centennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 01-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-divider{--divider-border-style:none;--divider-border-width:1px;--divider-color:#0c0d0e;--divider-icon-size:20px;--divider-element-spacing:10px;--divider-pattern-height:24px;--divider-pattern-size:20px;--divider-pattern-url:none;--divider-pattern-repeat:repeat-x}.elementor-widget-divider .elementor-divider{display:flex}.elementor-widget-divider .elementor-divider__text{font-size:15px;line-height:1;max-width:95%}.elementor-widget-divider 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100%;-webkit-mask-repeat:var(--divider-pattern-repeat);mask-repeat:var(--divider-pattern-repeat);background-color:var(--divider-color);-webkit-mask-image:var(--divider-pattern-url);mask-image:var(--divider-pattern-url)}.elementor-widget-divider--no-spacing{--divider-pattern-size:auto}.elementor-widget-divider--bg-round{--divider-pattern-repeat:round}.rtl .elementor-widget-divider .elementor-divider__text{direction:rtl}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-divider,.e-con>.elementor-widget-divider{width:var(--container-widget-width,100%);--flex-grow:var(--container-widget-flex-grow)}<\/style>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 01-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading 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Marker  &#8211; The marker is missing<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Location:<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Four miles north of Window Rock, Arizona<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Fort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\"><a 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font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>Fort Defiance was established in September 18, 1851, by Colonel Edwin J. Sumner to create a military presence in the Mexican Cession in what later would be Arizona. In 1861, the fort was abandoned by the army due to the Civil War and was re-established in 1863 as Fort Canby. The Treaty of 1868 was signed at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, to allow members of the Navajo Nation to return to Arizona after a forced deportation known as The Long Walk. The fort was abandoned again, but it was re\u2011established for the last time in 1870 when the first government school for the Navajos was started. After WWII, due to the fort\u2019s proximity to the Navajo Nation capitol of Window Rock, the area emerged as a commercial and residential center with a post office, a medical center, school and trading center. The DAR plaque was placed on a red sandstone column in front of the post office lawn. <\/p>\n<p>The plaque read, &#8220;Fort Defiance Arizona \/ Established Sept. 18, 1851 \/ -?- Remote Military Outpost \/ On American Frontier \/ At that Time \/ Erected on \/ The One Hundreth Anniversary \/ of the Founding \/ By The Arizona Society \/ Daughters of the American Revolution.&#8221; The marker has been missing since 1985.<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><strong style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Dedicated:\u00a0<\/strong><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/>September 18, 1951<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><strong style=\"font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; color: #262626;\">Sponsor:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<br style=\"color: #2a2a2a; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" \/><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #5b72dc; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; font-family: 'Gentium Basic'; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arizonadar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona State Society DAR <br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 01-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-collage1-2-images.jpg\" alt=\"A collage of a newspaper article and vintage snapshot of the original marker. Marker text is in the body of this page.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-collage1-2-images.jpg 622w, https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-collage1-2-images-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption>DAR celebrates the centennial of Fort Defiance, 1951.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"483\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-fort-defiance-vintage-photograph-by-Simeon-Schwemberger-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photograph of four men in front of two tents in a desert scene. A flagpole and two buildings are in the background.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-fort-defiance-vintage-photograph-by-Simeon-Schwemberger-cropped.jpg 483w, https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-fort-defiance-vintage-photograph-by-Simeon-Schwemberger-cropped-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><figcaption>Officers&#8217; Quarters at Fort Defiance. Photograph by Simeon Schwemberger, St. Michaels, Arizona. Held by the Library of Congress. Image is in the public domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"441\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-painting-of-fort-defiance-seth-eastman-1873.jpeg\" alt=\"A painting of a desert scene. About twenty one-story buildings are set out in a regular pattern around a rectangular center open area.\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-painting-of-fort-defiance-seth-eastman-1873.jpeg 441w, https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/1951-painting-of-fort-defiance-seth-eastman-1873-300x201.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><figcaption>Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory (now Arizona). Painting by Seth Eastman, 1873. Held by the U.S. Senate. Request for permission to use is pending.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Defiance100th Anniversary Marker Marker:Fort Defiance&nbsp;Centennial Marker &#8211; The marker is missingLocation:Four miles north of Window Rock, ArizonaFort Defiance, Apache County, Arizona35.740484, -109.073806 Historical Significance:\u00a0Fort Defiance was established in September 18, 1851, by Colonel Edwin J. Sumner to create a military presence in the Mexican Cession in what later would be Arizona. In 1861, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5962,"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/869\/revisions\/5962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempazmarkers.arizonadar.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}