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These buildings housed officers with their families and servants, including the original Post Commander, before special quarters were built across the parade ground.  The 1873 Surgeon General's report describes them as "well finished, being plastered within and without... All the quarters of the officers are heated with open fireplaces, and well lighted by windows."

Captain Jack Crawford, known as "The Poet-Scout," was Post Sutler (trader) through most of the 1880's, and lived in one of these quarters with his family as custodian of the Fort for some years after it was decommissioned.  The above photo is probably Crawford's family and friends, about 1890, after a tin roof has been added to the building.

April 2000

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