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mcbooki057p031: Fort Cameron (cont.)
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| Identifier | mcbooki057p031 |
| Title | mcbooki057p031: Fort Cameron (cont.) |
| Subject | Beaver County, Utah--History
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| Description | York Volunteer Infantry, who was killed in the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
Before the summer had passed, contracts had been let to a number of men for the construction of four company barracks, a guard house, commissary, hospital and officers' quarters, to be made from the black rock taken from the near-by mountains.
The rock was hauled by the following men who owned large teams Allen Tanner, Sidney Tanner, Cunningbam Mathews, Hesikiah Simkins, Charles Dalton and M. L. Shepherd.
The officers' quarters were built in a row south of the Parade Campus, and faced north. They were built by masons, Thomas Frazer, Robert Thimbelbee, George Valentine Sr., William Stokes and Thomas Jones. Every available mason, carpenter and painter was put to work.
The burning of lime was done by Joseph and Henry Tattersall and George Davey. Plasterers were William Burt, Sr., and others whose names have not been located. Blacksmiths were D. Thompson and Robert Keys.
Lumber was cut and sawed by Willis Copeland, Frank Smith, Edward W. Thompson, William Carlow, Jeddy Dean and Robert Keys. Good horses and teams were in great demand and work was furnished the men in town. (These buildings when completed, were estimated to have cost approximately $230, 000.)
Soldiers were kept busy cleaning away brush and planting trees, making ditches and preparing temporary shelter against the coming winter weather.
With the arrival of the officers and families, social functions became the order of the day, and this routine of life continued for over a period of ten years. Many a soldier began to pay marked attention to the young ladies of the town and when the time of their enlistment
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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 | 61356221972004_5617161972004mcbooki057p031.jpg |
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