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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 28, 2020
Caption: Trading Post Plan Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) Maximilian's 1833 sketch of Fort Clark: a9 front gate; b) back gate; c) blockhouse; d) manager's house; e) clerks; and interpreters; room; f) kitchen; gah) the new house with Maximilian's apartment; i) laborers; room; k) forge; l) stables; m) merchandise and hide storage,; (upper right) 1973-1974 investigations locate considerable evidence of building walls and foundations although not extensive enough to allow building perimeters to be delineated with confidence.; (bottom right) 2001 excavation plan of features at the fort 's west corner showing first (circa 1830 in blue), second (circa 1845, green), and final (1850s, red) palisade trenches and last blockhouse foundation. For reference, the rectangle marks the same location in all illustrations with the (red)▲ in the same corner.
Submitted: December 13, 2020, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p556789
File Size: 3.430 Megabytes

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