We don't have the history that the East Coast has, but we find a few gems here and there for our school field trips. This fort was used a long time ago to do fur trading and such because it sits right on the river...
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| The Lookout Tower for the military to watch for Indians... |
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| My Ham again.. Where there is a camera, there is Nick....He loves to be funny...Josh is to the left, Zack is to the right and the one with the backpack is their close friend Jake.... |
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| Overlooking the whole Fort from the Lookout Tower... |
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| A group of kids listening to the guy shoot off his Bayonet |
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| In the look out tower are these small peep holes for soldiers to do their snipering (word??) |
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| The boys listening to a lecture on what school was like back in the day with one teacher and all the kids in one class. Each person in character gave about 5-8 minutes of lecturing.. Very informative and interesting information... |
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| The teacher in character.. |
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| the women who did the wash for the men made a good amount of money for back then but they had to carry water on their backs from the river, which was a long trek down to the bottom of the BIG hill... |
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| Jake and Nick got selected to help out.. Nick has the same gene I had as a kid. I always got selected out of crowds to participate... |
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| The Bayonet dude giving them instruction and then he fired it.. Very loud... |
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| This guy who was showing us the Captain's quarters, which was a beautiful but small house... |
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| This woman was a an Indian and her job was to translate the Indians tongue... |
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