Fort Selden Moonlight Tour is Oct. 28

Fort Selden Historic Site is inviting visitors on a unique moonlit tour, “Ghosts of the Past” beginning at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5:30 p.m.) Saturday, Oct. 28, at Fort Selden, 1280 Fort Selden Road in Radium Springs, 17 miles north of Las Cruces.

“People of the past will be wandering the Fort’s footprint, allowing visitors to experience life in New Mexico from new perspectives,” New Mexico Historic Sites (NMHS) said in a news release about the vent. “Visitors might meet an abuela and her box of toys and games, a cattle rancher on the Gila River northwest of Lordsburg, a bean farmer and her pesky sister from out of state (and) a patrolling soldier with a penchant for ghost stories.”

 Tours will begin every 20 minutes, 6-8:20 p.m., NMHS said.

Tickets for the timed tours can be purchased in advance at nmhistoricsites.org.

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum will be onsite demonstrating fiber arts.

From the NMHS website:

“In 1848, New Mexico formally became a United States territory. With the new government came more settlers further encroaching into the traditional homelands of the Apache, leading to a worsening of hostilities that had been increasing throughout the 19th century. In an effort to bring peace to the region, the U.S. government established Fort Selden in April 1865. The New Mexico Volunteers and troops from California constructed the adobe buildings. For 25 years, about 1,800 soldiers (infantry and cavalry) were stationed there protecting settlers from raiding and general lawlessness, and escorting travelers throughout New Mexico Territory.”

For more information, call 575-526-8911.

Visit nmhistoricsites.org/fort-selden for more history and information about upcoming events.