I just encountered a rather large area on a 1920 GLO Plat that is labeled "Garden Reservation - Surveyed by Joe Surveyor in 1887." It is about 1500 acres in size, approximately rectangular in shape, and is non-aliquot. Anyone know what this might have been?
Is it in Hopi country?
Could it be related to Havasupai?ÿ "Garden of Eden"?
It's not the "Fort Verde Garden Reservation"?
It is indeed the Fort Verde Garden Reservation!
Try this Google book. pg 605. It was reserved as a garden (farm?) for Camp Verde and relinquished in 1884. I also found some?ÿfield notes that refer to it.?ÿ
Melita
The Decisions Book (Google Books link) above has the wrong Township and Range and I think one of the Sections is a typo.?ÿ Probably lots in Sections 14 & 15, T13N, R5E, G&SRM.
Try this Google book. pg 605. It was reserved as a garden (farm?) for Camp Verde and relinquished in 1884. I also found some?ÿfield notes that refer to it.?ÿ
Melita
Thank you for the info! I wonder what possessed the Fed's to create a "garden" parcel for a town? I suspect that it was more for the Fort Verde Military Reservation...
Wingfield's were a local institution in that area for many years - I had a girlfriend in high school who had been adopted by a Wingfield.
Camp Verde was the original name of the fort. It was changed in 1868 to Fort Verde. From Period History on the State Park website.
The Garden Parcel looks like Desert Scrub to me.?ÿ A highway with Google Street views runs through it.
It is desert scrub today - but in 1887 it was waist high grass with "excellent grazing" - hence the name for the area Verde Valley. It may have been named by Gen. George R. Crook.
