sentences:  On May 18, 1864 it was moved 21 miles southwest to a miner's tent settlement on the left bank of Granite Creek called Granite City "(also Granite Dells, Gimletville)", which was on higher ground, had better access to lumber, and the military could better protect miners.At this time, the post was renamed Fort Whipple, after Amiel Weeks Whipple, a Civil War Union General.The capital was placed two miles south in the new city of Prescott founded in 1864.