Back in the 1850’s an army camp was established on this site, and named after Jefferson Davis (so you can tell *which* army established this). The area is a small box canyon, which served to make the area more defensible, and those few stationed here protected the wagon trains which passed by. At the start of the Civil War the camp was pretty much abandoned, and Apache raiders killed the remaining occupants in 1861. The camp saw new use in the post-Civil War era, as it was one of the places where the “buffalo soldiers” were garrisoned. It’s one of the few surviving examples of what a US Army fort looked like in Southwest, so it’s worth visiting for the historical nature.
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