Archeological and Architectural Investigations at Brown's Sheep Camp (5LA5824), a Multicomponent District in the U.S. Army Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Las Animas County, Colorado.

Abstract : A 1992 remote sensing survey by the lnteragency Archeological Services Division at the Brown's Sheep Camp site (5LA5824) located three anomalies which were interpreted to have potential as cultural features. Following up on this survey, archeologists and an architectural historian from the NPS Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) returned to the Site in 1995. The purposes of the study were threefold: (1) determine whether the anomalies were of cultural derivation; (2) further document the standing structures to aid the U.S. Army in future preservation efforts at the site: and (3) determine whether evidence existed to allow an association of site structures with the 1870s era Hogback Stage Station. Results of this work proved two of three remote sensing anomalies to he associated with structures the third being of unknown origin. The architectural survey however, did locate structural and construction features which identified an adobe structure as constructed circa 1884 to the late 1890s. This temporal affiliation allows the building to be associated at a minimum with the early ranching era at Brown's Sheep Camp. Archeological investigations were unable to provide evidence for the site being utilized as a stage Station.