In 1875-76, U.S. Indian Agent Thomas Jeffords governed some 900 Chiricahua Apaches here under the vigilance of the U.S. Army at Fort Bowie. Cochise, Chiricahua chieftain and friend of Jeffords, died in 1874, leaving the band divided in leadership and conduct. Some Apaches remained on the reservation, while others slipped away to plunder Mexican settlements. In June 1876, the government removed Jeffords and moved 325 Apaches northward to the San Carlos Reservation, but many escaped and fled to distant sanctuaries to renew hostilities for another decade. In 1984, archeologists excavated the remains of a late 19th century adobe building, most notably the Jeffords agency. The building had fireplaces for each of the three rooms, wooden flooring, bits of adobe plaster and white-washed wood inside, and a rock shelf in front that suggests a porch. Typical buildings of the period had flat roofs covered with brush and earth and small windows with deep sills, and a likely corral behind the building penned agency stock.