[1] Camp Goodwin, then Fort Goodwin, was constructed in June 1864 by the California Volunteers, of the Union Army in Arizona Territory for a base for prosecuting the 1861-1872 Apache War and protecting settlers in the Upper Gila River region.

It was named for Arizona's first territorial governor, John N. Goodwin.

Additionally the camp was plagued by malaria from mosquitoes in the cienega fed by the nearby spring from which the fort obtained its water.

The camp was subsequently used as a subagency of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation until about 1884.

[2] Today the site is located on farmland not far from the ghost town of Geronimo.