Camp Gaston

Camp Gaston, sometimes called Fort Gaston located near the course of the Colorado River southeast of modern Palo Verde, California between 1859 and 1867.

Camp Gaston was first established in April 1859, as an advance base for two companies of the 6th Infantry, part of the 2nd Mohave Expedition during the Mohave War. Subsequently it remained as an outpost of Fort Yuma, intermittently until 1867. It was located along the Colorado River in what is now the Palo Verde Valley, 80 miles by steamboat up the Colorado River from Fort Yuma and 45 miles by land, on the west bank of the river in California.