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Meat Room

This was the first structure in the fort to be completed.



Sgt. John Ordway recorded, on December 14, 1805:

continues wet and rainy. we continued on with the huts. 2 men employed Splitting out plank to cover our huts with. we finished raiseing the other line of huts & began covring one room for a meat house.--


Two days later, he wrote that the meat room was now in use.


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Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
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