Fort Lowell Post Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona

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The Fort Lowell Post Cemetery (1881-1891) is a defunct cemetery located southeast of what is now Fort Lowell Park. The exact location is not known; not by the City of Tucson or by archeologists restoring the post. A map in the Edith Tompkins Manuscript Collection suggests it was located on the southern side of "Cienaga Road" southeast of the fort in the northeast quarter of Section 36. Camp Lowell (now downtown Tucson) was moved to this location in 1878 and renamed Fort Lowell. Use of the original camp cemetery continued until 1881 when the cemetery was exhumed and taken to the new site several miles to the east. When the fort was abandoned in 1891, eighty burials were exhumed and taken to the San Francisco Presidio (now the San Francisco National Cemetery) in California. The balance of the cemetery was relocated to private property in 1952 by members of the local Veterans of Foreign War Post 549. A photograph in a local newspaper of the period clearly shows grave depressions and the base of a grave marker, but does not document the location. Ironically, the title of the article is " Old Army Records Disclose Location of Abandoned Ft. Lowell Cemetery" (Arizona Daily Star 16 November 1952, p. 16A, Tucson).