San Bernardino Ranch | |
 Main ranch house, 1985 | |
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| Location | Cochise County, Arizona, United States |
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| Nearest city | Douglas, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 31°20′11″N 109°16′47″W / 31.33639°N 109.27972°W |
| Area | 205 acres (83 ha) |
| Built | 1822 |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000170 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966[1] |
| Designated NHLD | July 19, 1964[2] |
San Bernardino Ranch is a historic ranch house in the southern San Bernardino Valley near the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in extreme southeast Cochise County, Arizona, United States. It is significant for its association with the beginning of cattle ranching in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. The ranchland and valley are part of the headwaters region of the Yaqui River.
The site is also known as the Slaughter Ranch, for it was the home of the Old West lawman John Horton Slaughter from the 1880s until his death in 1922.[3] In 1911, during the conflict known as the Border War, a United States Army camp was established at the ranch and was called Camp San Bernardino Ranch, or the Slaughter Ranch Outpost.
The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964 for its association with Slaughter.[2][4] Today the compound includes the preserved ranch house, wash house, icehouse, granary, and commissary. Much of it is set up as a museum known as the Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#66000170)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "San Bernardino Ranch". National Historic Landmark summary listing. Archived from the original on April 6, 2015. Retrieved September 27, 2007.
- ^ Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", West Texas Historical Review, Vol. 89 (2013), pp. 116-117
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination". National Park Service. 1986. San Bernardino Ranch / John H. Slaughter Ranch--Accompanying 11 photos of main house compound, from 1984.