Stabilization of Partition in Ruin of Officers' Quarters D (Bldg. 57), August 1956
Hieb DL. 1956. Stabilization of Partition in Ruin of Officers' Quarters D (Bldg. 57), August 1956. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains before its abandonment in 1890. This “grand old post” witnessed the entire sweeping saga of America’s western expansion and Indian resistance to encroachment on their territories. This memorandum is a progress report on the stabilization of a partition in the ruins of Officers' Quarters D (Bldg. 57). Cracks, holes and minor joints between buttressing and old wall were filled with lime-concrete and stained with muddy water. Excavations were then backfilled and the work area cleaned up as shown. The concrete buttresses are much less conspicuous than the old wooden braces yet should add many years to the life of this old lime concrete partition which is the only interior lime-concrete wall surviving in the ruins at Fort Laramie. The report also includes photographs of the stabilization process.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Hieb, David
- Date of Issue
- 1956-10-29
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- FOLA , IMR
- Keywords
- Cheyenne, fort, frontier, Indian Wars, lime-concrete, military, quarters, ruins, Sioux, stabilization, Utah
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000329: Officer's Quarters D Ruin