Fort Abercrombie Virtual Tour

On the first floor, there were two large rooms connected by a walk way.  Each room had a fireplace and several windows.   

The building directly to the north of the Scout's quarters is the first of two barracks for the enlisted men.  This particular enlisted men's barracks may look like two separate units until we notice that the modern road, County Road Number 4 cuts through the location of this barracks.  This particular barracks held two companies of about eighty men.  The barracks contained a dormitory, washroom, kitchen, mess room, and an orderly room for each company of men.  Barracks furniture was limited to wooden bunks, benches, and tables all built by the men.  Heat was provided by iron-box wood stoves.

The men slept on bed sacks filled with hay or straw.  Each man was allocated sixteen pounds of hay or straw each month.  Blankets had to be shaken and aired from time to time.  Every morning the bed sacks was neatly rolled and placed at the head of the bunk.  The blankets were folded into five or six uniform folds and placed near the bed sack.  New iron bedsteads replaced the wood bunks in 1873.

 

                                                

Our trail of discovery will now take us down the Fort Wadsworth – Fort Ransom Military Road.  We will take this road as far as the flagpole which is located on the center of Fort Abercrombie’s parade ground. 

The flagpole stands sixty feet tall.  It was erected as part of the recent reconstruction project.  The crow’s nest is a platform on which the bugler could have been required to stand on.

 

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