Download or read book Historic Furnishings Report the Fort Smith Courtroom written by National Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 13, 1961, Congress authorized Fort Smith National Historic Site by Public Law 87-215. According to its 1994 statement of park significance, Fort Smith National Historic Site "preserves the site of two frontier forts and the site of the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas, including the Indian Territory." To fulfill its obligation to Fort Smith's enabling legislation, National Park Service interpretation can be grouped into the following three periods: First Fort: continuous military occupation from 1817 to 1824, then intermittent military occupation from 1824 to 1834; Second Fort: intermittent military occupation from 1838 to 1851; continuous military occupation from 1851 to 1871 (including occupation by the Confederacy during the Civil War);Federal Court: judicial era from 1872 to 1896 In brief: the term "First Fort" refers to a fort the Army built on a bluff at the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau Rivers. The Army occupied the first Fort Smith continuously from 1817 to 1824, then intermittently to 1834. During this 17-year period, the Army helped maintain order between two principal Indian nations, the Cherokee and the Osage. "The intermittent use of the fort from 1824 to 1838 was tied to the forced removal of the Five Tribes-Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole-beginning in 1830."These nations were moved to lands historically occupied by the Osage. The removal of these nations provided the need to authorize a second fort. The term "Second Fort" refers to remains of a second fort slightly to the northeast of the present courtroom and jail. This second fort served primarily as a supply depot. From 1838 to 1851, the Army occupied this second Fort Smith site intermittently, and from 1851 to 1871 an army occupied the second fort continuously. The term "an army" is appropriate because during the Civil War federal and confederate armies occupied the second fort. The term "federal court" refers to the use of Army buildings as a federal court. In 1872, the year after the Army vacated Fort Smith, the U.S. Court for the Western District of Arkansas moved into the Army's former barracks building. The federal court modified the barracks into a courthouse and added a wing for a jail in 1887. The court used this federal jail until 1917. The federal government maintained control of the building until 1920. The principal figure of federal occupancy from 1875 to 1889 was Judge Isaac Charles Parker (1838-96). Judge Parker served at Fort Smith from 1875 to 1896. In 21 years on the bench, he heard more than 12,000 cases. Fort Smith NHS represents the site of the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas by preserving the courtroom to its appearance in 1883. In one part of this historic building (completed as a military barrack in 1851 and converted to a courtroom in 1872), visitors will view furnishings representing the building's use as a courtroom. This historic furnishings report summarizes primary evidence of objects in the courtroom for the years 1872 to 1883; it then recommends objects appropriate for a historic furnishing of the courtroom to the appearance of the room in 1883. The principal reason the report recommends 1883 as the date of interpretation is that a description of the contemporary appearance of the courtroom appears in a secondary account of a trial occurring in that year. The trial was that of Mat Music, an accused man who tried to escape during his trial by diving through a doorway to the right of Judge Parker. More detail about that trial and the newspaper description come later in this report.
Download or read book Historic Furnishings Report written by John Demer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Structure Report and Furnishing Study Courthouse and Jail Wing Historical Data Section Fort Smith National Historic Site Fort Smith Arkansas written by John C. Paige and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Structure Report Courthouse and Jail Wing Architectural Data Section Fort Smith National Historic Site Fort Smith Arkansas written by Leslie L. Siroky and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Smith National Historic Site Master Plan Development Concept Final Environmental Assessment EA B1 Revised General Management Plan GMP Development Concept Plan Interpretive Prospectus 1981 B3 Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone Commissary Fort Smith National Historic Site Arkansas written by Enid T. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Structure Report Barracks courthouse jail Building Fort Smith National Historic Site Fort Smith Arkansas written by Juliet L. Galonski and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Structure Report Courthouse and Jail Wing Architectural Data Section Fort Smith National Historic Site Fort Smith Arkansas written by Leslie L. Siroky and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Structure Report written by C. Craig Frazier and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fort Smith National Historic Site Master Plan Development Concept Final Environmental Assessment EA B1 Revised General Management Plan GMP Development Concept Plan Interpretive Prospectus 1981 B3 Resource Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Furnishings Report Commanding Officer s Quarters HS 8 Fort Larned National Historic Site Kansas 1996 written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encounters with Popular Pasts written by Mike Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.
Download or read book Archeological Assessment for Fort Smith National Historic Site written by Roger E. Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Historic Furnishings Report and Plan Appomattox Court House National Historical Park Appomattox Virginia written by William Seale and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Furnishings Report written by Mary K. Grassick and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Furnishings Report: Commanding Officer's Quarters, Hs-8, Fort Larned National Historic Site Larned, Kansas Fort Larned National Historic Site, located in Pawnee County, Kansas, was established by Public Law 88-541 on August 31, 1964. The fort was preserved to commemorate the significant role played by Fort Larned in the opening of the west by preserving, protecting, interpreting, and administering the resources of Fort Lamed for the public as a national historic site. Established to protect travelers on the Santa Fe trail from Indian attack and situated on the banks of the Pawnee River, the fort developed from a group of adobe buildings established in 1859 to a post of substantial sandstone structures completed in 1868. Fort Lamed served as a disbursement point for Indian annuities in the 18608 and as a base for troops guarding workers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad against Indian attack in the 1870s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
