Saturday, March 28, 2026
10 am – 4 pm
FREE but donations are appreciated!
Fort Lowell Day celebrates the Old Fort Lowell Neighborhood, the Fort Lowell Museum, and the history of the area that these two now encompass. Enjoy demonstrations, displays, tours, music, baseball, and food trucks!
Members of the public are welcome to participate in adobe preservation activities with the City of Tucson Historic Preservation Office at the Post Hospital, with the assistance of qualified historic preservation specialists with experience in Southwestern Earthen Architecture. These activities will include applying mud to exposed adobe walls to stabilize them and protect them from weathering.
Schedule:
10 am:Cannon demonstrationby 3rd US Battery A(canceled)
10 am – 2 pm: Adobe preservation at the hospital ruins with the City of Tucson Historic Preservation Office
10:30 am: Flag raising ceremony (in front of the hospital ruins)
11 am:Tour of the Archaeology and Preservation by Homer Thiel (Desert Archaeology)
11 am – 1 pm: Way Out West performance
12 pm – 6 pm: Vintage Baseball games at Baseball Field 1
12:30 pm: Tour of Fort Lowell Park – where was the fort? by Dan Morgan (Fort Lowell Museum docent)
1:15 pm:Tour of the Officer Quarters and Commissary by Ken Scoville (Historian)
1:30 pm: 4th Cavalry Regimental Band performance
2:30 pm:Cannon demonstrationby 3rd US Battery A(canceled)
Guests include:
Arizona Historical Society
Buffalo Soldiers – Greater Southern Arizona Chapter
3rd US Battery A
Old Pueblo Archaeology
Tucson Civil War Roundtable
Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center
Historic Demonstrations & Displays:
Martha Summerhayes, interpreter
Lola Cole Smith, interpreter
Louise Girard, interpreter
US Cavalry
Blacksmith
Faro Dealer
Camp Kitchen
Army Medicine and Amputations
