Fort Gardens

Fort Gardens (HM2DJS)

Location: Fort Scott, KS 66701 Bourbon County
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Country: United States of America
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N 37° 50.579', W 94° 42.312'

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"A profusion of vegetables - beets, carrots,
onions, potatoes, beans, turnips, and
tomatoes - were harvested from (fort)
garden plots."

'Broadax & Bayonet,' Francis Paul Prucha
General order - "To promote the health of the troops and facilitate the necessary arrangements for subsisting the army...the commanding officer of every permanent post and garrisons...will annually cultivate a garden, by the troops under his command, equal to supplying hospital and garrisons with the necessary kitchen vegetables throughout the year..."
Adjutant and Inspector General's office, Sept. 11, 1818
Vegetable gardens were established at every permanent military post, including Fort Scott. In order to keep the men healthy, fresh produce needed to be provided in some way. Each company had a small plot for their own use, as did the hospital and the individual officers. Plants grown at Fort Scott included cabbages, carrots, muskmelons, onions, peas, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, radishes, and turnips. After harvesting their crops, the soldiers would have to preserve and store them. During the summer months, the garden plot before you has a small sample of some of the produced that was grown here historically.
[Photo captions, from top to bottom, read]
· This



photo (1868), taken in front of the frontier-era hospital building, shows a small fenced vegetable plot located roughly where the fort's original hospital garden would have been located in the 1840s.
· Reenactors maintaining a modern demonstration garden.
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HM NumberHM2DJS
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Year Placed2018
Placed ByNational Park Service
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Date Added Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 at 7:01am PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 349963 N 4189763
Decimal Degrees37.84298333, -94.70520000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 50.579', W 94° 42.312'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 50' 34.74" N, 94° 42' 18.72" W
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Area Code(s)620, 913
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 100-198 Old Fort Blvd, Fort Scott KS 66701, US
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