Fort Vancouver (Washington)

     After going Berry Picking, we visited Fort Vancouver.

     The walls of the fort were made out of wooden logs with pointy ends that faced upward.

This is inside the fort.

There were several cannons inside the fort. Here are two of them.

This sundial was found in front of a house.  They used it to tell the time.

Inside the house, everything was set so that it looked like we were visiting it in the time of Fort Vancouver. I think this room was used for meals or tea.

This is another room in the house. I think it was the dining room.

Another room in the house.

My younger sister and brother.  My sister is helping my brother with his junior ranger booklet.

A stove in the cooking room.

The cooking room had three ovens, and this is the third one (the one on the most right).

All the doors of the houses had locks like this.

To open the door, you lifted the lock and it would open.

We also visited the Counting House.

This is a room in the Counting House.  They put up signs on the walls and on tables so we could learn about the history and culture of the time of Fort Vancouver.

There were stoves in the Counting House, too.

A bedroom in the Counting House.  The bed is in the far right corner.

The carpentry shop. The fort has presentations, and they are either in the carpentry shop, or in the metal smith shop.

     Today's presentation was in the metal smith's shop.  Everything was like what it would be in the time of Fort Vancouver. The metal smith and his apprentice dressed like the smiths of that time.  The fire burned on coals and was kept going with bellows.  The tools they used and made were like those that were used and made in the time of Fort Vancouver.  In the presentation we saw, they showed us how to make an arrowhead.