Fort Bayard Historic District

Fort Bayard was founded in 1866 as a cavalry post that included Buffalo Soldiers and Apache scouts, and it later became a tuberculosis sanatorium for the Army and then a state hospital, with the old parade ground, officers' quarters and hospital buildings still standing. The site is a National Register historic district, and the Fort Bayard Medical Center, a long-term care facility, still operates on the grounds. New Mexico haunted-places lists describe reports of apparitions and sounds in the old hospital and quarters.