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Fort Jackson Officers
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: November 29, 2009
Caption: Fort Jackson Officers' Privy
Additional Description: This aera was the Officers' Latrine or "Privy Vaults" and was located behind the planned,but never built, Officers' Barracks. The Enlisted Latrines were located to the left and right of this latrine. The lower openings in the brick wall connect to the outer moat; as the tide filled the moat, water flowed into these basins cleaning out the waste. These were in effect flushing toilets. An enclosed wood and brick structure originally stood over these basins. Air shafts rising within the walls provided ventilation.
Submitted: November 30, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p87845
File Size: 0.183 Megabytes

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