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Fort Pickens

This living area was intended to be officers' quarters. However, it served as a hospital and later as prison cells for the Apache. Geronimo stayed in a cell similar to the one seen here. However, the rooms he used on the South wall have collapsed.


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Photo Courtesy of James E. Rawe, 2001.

 

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