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The Presidio de Calabasas also known as Fort Calabasas or Camp Calabasas was a stone fortress built by Mexico in 1837 south of Tumacacori Arizona. It was built on the land of the Grant of Manuel Maria Gandara by Gandara to protect his lands near the Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas from the Apache. Following the Gadsden Purchase the United States Army stationed Major Enoch Steen and four companies of the 1st U.S. Dragoons now the 1st U. S.