The park includes a small part of the former Camp Floyd site, the Stagecoach Inn, and the Fairfield District School.

[13] The detachment consisted of more than 3,500 military and civilian employees, including cavalry, artillery, infantry and support units.

Soon after their arrival, troops settled in the Cedar Valley area and eventually Fairfield, where 400 buildings were constructed by November 1858.

A series of photographs of Camp Floyd, taken by Samuel C. Mills in January 1859, show the post as a cluster of adobe buildings including barracks, officers quarters, warehouses and other sundry structures.

The rebellion never took place, leaving the army with routine garrison duty that included protecting the stagecoach and Pony Express routes, preventing Indian marauding, and mapping and surveying responsibilities.

It was rumored to be an attempt by Secretary of War Floyd (a known southern sympathizer) to drain the federal treasury.

A contract with the firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell for delivery of 16 million pounds (7.3 kt) of freight required 3,500 wagons, 40,000 oxen, 1,000 mules and more than 4,000 men.

[citation needed] A 40-acre (16 ha) area was listed on the NRHP as Camp Floyd Site November 11, 1974.