The camp moved to the top of the hill in California at Johnson’s ferry and became Fort Yuma in March 1851.
Camp Independence was sited by the US military Decemsix miles below another ferry operated by George Johnson from San Francisco at the two hills near the confluence with the Gila. In 1850 New Mexico Territory was created (see maps page of this blog) and California became a state. With the west bank of the river (actually north at that point) added to the United States, Army Lieutenant Coutts supplemented his income by running a ferry for miners rushing to the California gold placers in 1849. Pattie passed through the following year and the Mormon Battalion crossed at Yuma in 1846 on the way to seize California in the Mexican War. Lieutenant Hardy with the British navy mapped Yuma crossing in 1826. The article on the Five “C’s” of the Arizona economy, posted February 15, 2010, included a picture of Yuma orange groves and the Climatic Hotel along with text on Yuma agriculture.) A 1910s view of Yuma’s railroad bridge was posted Jwith the Arizona railroads history. Picture of Quechan at Yuma depot posted in Part One, January 25, 2011. Includes photos of Fort Yuma Quechan school students. (More at the Maposting on the Quechan in Part Three of Arizona Indians article. On the California side of the river, Garces established two missions but died there when the Quechan rebelled in the summer of 1781. Padre Kino crossed at the dawn of the 18th century, followed by Fray Garces closer to the century’s close. There too, Europeans headed to California were floated across the river on rafts made by the Quechan, either near the base of Pilot Knob or farther upstream where the river is squeezed between two hills. There, the Quechan people found good places to cross. The combined flow then heads west for a few miles before turning south again and into Mexico. In the southwestern corner of Arizona the capricious Colorado River meanders among hills and around mesas toward a confluence with the Gila.
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