Archaeology Southwest - Exploring and protecting the places of our past

Located on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Lochiel Schoolhouse was built at the turn of the previous century. It has been owned by the Patagonia school district since the Lochiel School closed in 1972. One of only a handful of remaining examples of rural, one-room schoolhouses with associated teacherage in the Santa Cruz basin, the property [...]

Camp Naco is located a stone’s throw from the Mexico-U.S. border, several miles west of Naco, Arizona. The facility was constructed between 1919 and 1922 as part of the War Department’s Mexican Border Defense project. The original plan called for construction of 35 buildings, but only 23 were ever completed. Four were recently destroyed by [...]