Fort Selden visitor center

Upcoming Events at Fort Selden State Monument

9/11/10, Saturday
8:30am — 4:30pm
Frontier Days
2-day Special Event

Enjoy living history demonstrations and period military re-enactors.  Agenda:8:30       Reveille — Flag Raising — 911 Remembrance Ceremony 9:00       Infantry Games and Drills  —  Parade Grounds                                  9:30      “A Ladies Day”  -  Speaker’s Tent 10:00    “Modern Medicine in 1873”   —   Speakers Tent                 Also  ...   Period Tea and Bake Sale  at the  Visitor’s Center 10:30    Gun Fight Skit —  Three Toads Saloon   11:00     “Civil War Diseases”  -  Speaker’s Tent  11:30    “1860’s Rounder's Game”  (Baseball)  -  Parade Grounds  12:00     Cannon Firing Demonstration—Parade Grounds 12:30     “New Mexico Forts of the West”   - Speakers Tent 1:00        “Buffalo Soldiers in the West” - Speakers Tent 1:30        “1860’s Rounder's Game”  (Baseball)  -  Parade Grounds  2:00        Cannon Firing Demonstration—Parade Grounds 2:30        Infantry Games and Drills  —  Parade Grounds                                  3:00        “Modern Medicine in 1873” - Speakers Tent 3:30        Gun Fight Skit —  Three Toads Saloon  4:00        “Civil War Diseases”  -  Speaker’s Tent                                  4:30        “Retreat”  Flag Lowering Ceremony—Parade Ground     Fort Selden State Monument is a New Mexico State Monument under the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Fort Selden State Monument

12/11/10, Saturday
5:00pm — 9:00pm
Luminaria Tour
Free After-Hours Holiday Event

Free admission to all visitors.  Enjoy living history military re-enactors, 1000 luminarias, free cookies and beverages.  Fort Selden State Monument is a New Mexico State Monument under the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Fort Selden State Monument

5/8/11, Sunday
10:00am — 3:00pm
Mother’s Day
Family event

Free admission for all mothers.  Enjoy period tea and complimentary corsage.  Ages 16 and under free.

Fort Selden State Monument

6/19/11, Sunday
10:00am — 3:00pm
Father’s Day
Family event

Free admission for all fathers.  Enjoy a campfire breakfast with biscuits & eggs cooked on a stick for children.  Ages 16 and under free admission.

Fort Selden State Monument

9/10/11, Saturday
8:00am — 5:00pm
Frontier Days
2-day Event for all ages

Enjoy living history demonstration and period military re-enactors.Built on the banks of the Rio Grande, this adobe fort housed units of the U.S. Infantry and Cavalry. Their intent was to protect settlers and travelers in the Mesilla Valley from desperados and Apache Indians. Several of the units stationed at the fort were black troopers, referred to as Buffalo Soldiers. A young Douglas Mac Arthur called the fort home while his father was post commander in the late 1880s.  The weekend begins with Reveille & Flag Raising at 8:30, followed by a “911 Remembrance Ceremony” at 8:46 Ongoing Living History and Events Throughout the Day Include... Military encampment with infantry cavalry & artillery Period Cooking Demonstrations including a “Chuck Wagon Camp”, “Summer Kitchen” Wood Cook Stove Demonstration, and Traditional “Horno Bread Baking”Period school house exhibit and DemonstrationMilitary Drills, Black Powder DemonstrationsAn 1860’s game of Rounders (Baseball)Kids History Hunt and Period GamesVictorian Tea will be followed by a Bake Sale and day long Silent AuctionSpeakers Program Topics including... “Modern Medicine in 1873”“New Mexico Forts during the Western Expansion Era”“Diseases of the Civil War”“A Ladies Day in the 1880’s”“The Buffalo Soldiers”A Book Signing, Presentation and “Walking Tour” of Ft. Selden by author Allan J. HolmesCow Camp Vaquero Pit Bar-B-Que

Fort Selden State Monument

12/10/11, Saturday
5:00pm — 9:00pm
Luminaria Tour
Free, after-hours event

Enjoy living history military re-enactors, 1000 luminarias, free cookies and beverages.  Free admission to all visitors. 

Fort Selden State Monument