Historic Structures Report, Part I, Lee's Fort, Lee's Ferry District

Brown WE. 1966. Historic Structures Report, Part I, Lee's Fort, Lee's Ferry District. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area for hundreds of miles, from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah, encompassing scenic vistas, geologic wonders, and a vast panorama of human history. The Lee's Ferry historic sites are located within a National Recreation Area; they are, therefore, secondary resources in the active recreation context. 'l'he most significant of these sites and structures under Service control–Lee's Fort–is close to an intensive visitor-use area, whose development relates to water recreation. Cars, boats, boat-trailers, and various servicing facilities must be accommodated nearby to permit visitor access to the Colorado River. A large parking lot borders the south face of the fort. Running on the north side of the fort is an artificial drainage channel–built to protect the fort and other developments in the area from the flash floods that sometimes occur here. The historical environment of Lee's Fort has been somewhat impaired, due to early use of the area without regard to historical values, design to accommodate heavy visitor use, lack of historical evaluation, and–given the uncertainty regarding the Marble Canyon Dam Project–physical developments at Lee's Ferry proper that could not be considered permanent because of predicted inundation upon construction of the dam.

Type
Published Report
Authors
Brown, William
Date of Issue
1966-04
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Units
GLCA , IMR
Keywords
Anasazi, Diné, fort, Hopi, Lee's Ferry, masonry, Navajo, preservation, Pueblo II Era, Pueblo III Era, ruins, ruins stabilization, stabilization
Subjects
CRIS-HS: 000488: Lees Ferry Fort

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