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mcbooki056p030: Chapter Four, Founding of Towns, Ranches and Forts, Fort Cameron
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| Identifier | mcbooki056p030 |
| Title | mcbooki056p030: Chapter Four, Founding of Towns, Ranches and Forts, Fort Cameron |
| Subject | Beaver County, Utah--History
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| Description | CHAPTER FOUR -
FOUNDING OF TOWNS, RANCHES AND FORTS
FORT CAMERON
September, 1873, witnessed the construction of a Military Barracks at Beaver. A post had been established in May when 250 United States Troops arrived in the Territory. Though weary from a two-hundred mile walk, a tented city arose almost over night with a large hospital tent in the center, Doctor Elbery in charge. This hospital was the only one within a radius of 150 miles. While its purpose was for the care of the soldiers, many citizens received medical aid.
The Post was situated on the north side of the Beaver River, about one mile from the mouth of the canyon in a recess between foothills of the Wasatch mountains, two miles east of Beaver City, and was about 6, 200 feet above sea level.
It was established May 25, 1872, by Companies D, E, G, and L, Eighth U.S. Infantry, commanded by Major John D. Wilkins, Eighth U.S. Infantry; Lieut. Colonel George A. Woodward, Fourth U.S. Infantry; Captain David Krause, Fourteenth U.S. Infantry and Lieut. Colonel Nathan W. Osborne, Sixth U.S. Infantry.
A military reservation was declared at the Post by the President of the United States, May 12, 1873, for an area of two and two-thirds square miles, and a wooded timbered reserve was declared November 10, 1879, embracing an area of 21, 338, 640 square miles.
For some time it was called the Post of Beaver. On July 1, 1874, the name was changed to Fort Cameron in honor of Colonel James Cameron, 79th New
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| Source | Monuments to Courage, A History of Beaver County
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| Date.Digital | 2004-07 |
| Date.Original | 1948 |
| Type | image |
| Format | image/jpeg |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Owning Institution | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher.Digital | Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University |
| Publisher.Original | Beaver County Chapter of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/murdock.html |
| Rights | Digital image c2004 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| Scanned by | Harmon, Merinda |
| Cataloged by | Dillard, Philip |
| CONTENTdm file name | 17256221972004_5517161972004mcbooki056p030.jpg |
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