Gachado Well and Line Camp
National Register of Historic Places

Gachado Well and Line Camp

Lukeville, Pima County, Arizona
Listed
November 2, 1978
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
78000348

About this property

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

Location

Lukeville, Pima County, Arizona
31.87161, -112.78621

Categories

INDUSTRYAGRICULTUREARCHITECTURE
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Sources

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When was Gachado Well and Line Camp listed on the National Register?

Gachado Well and Line Camp was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1978.

What type of historic resource is Gachado Well and Line Camp?

Gachado Well and Line Camp is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Gachado Well and Line Camp is recorded as the industrial era, specifically around 1917.

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