Coronado National Forest

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The five buildings which remain at Kentucky Camp were built around 1904. The largest was probably used as an office by the Santa Rita Water and Mining Company. Later, it became the main ranch house. A small building behind the office was used to process gold samples, as evidenced by liners that came from an assay furnace. A large barn lies in ruins opposite a small house where Stetson may have lived, and another small house lies at the far end of the site.

Map of building layout at Kentucky Camp

Ruins of the barn before stabilization of the walls. The collapsed roof has since been removed, and the walls braced

One of two adobe cabins at Kentucky Camp, where Stetson or other company managers lived.