Camp Bouse

Historical marker location:

Bouse, Arizona

( Marker is on Broadway Avenue (Arizona Route 72 at milepost 27) south of Main Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1998

The 701st Tank Battalion.

Before becoming a US territory in 1848, Arizona was part of Mexico. The Mexican government established the region as part of the state of Sonora, but it later became its own separate territory.