Texas Canyon is a valley inCochise County, Arizona,[1] about 20 miles east ofBenson onInterstate 10. Lying between theLittle Dragoon Mountains to the north and theDragoon Mountains to the south and known for its giantgranite boulders, thecanyon attractsrockhounds and photographers.
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Thestagecoach route of theButterfield Overland Mail passed through Texas Canyon from 1858 until the outbreak of theCivil War in 1862, when thestage line suspended operations. The canyon is historically within the range of theChiricahua Apache, andCochise made his last stronghold near here in the Dragoon Mountains during the mid-1870s.
In the mid to late 1880s, David A. Adams, a Cochise County pioneer, moved to the area fromColeman County, Texas, soon to be followed by other family members. Descendants still live and raise cattle on the old family ranch.
TheAmerind Foundation, a privately fundedarchaeological andethnographic research facility, library, museum and art gallery founded byWilliam Shirley Fulton in the 1930s, is located in Texas Canyon a short distance from exit 318 of Interstate 10.
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