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Show Fori Cuenaventupa Found In Onilon outlining the r of the old Miles F ,r "Fort Buenaven-,i Buenaven-,i been found almost ( where historical T' and family traditions f l- would near the i- er est of the ordon the west side EVAN DeBloois, ad- professor of r n Weber State ' r and regional legist with the U.S. ' " Service, sald in an" r" ,i the discovery that '::, is probably the . rerroanent site in the 'jiiinarea which has P'ajn-ered so precisely. p Slnied out that for 130 be site has remained undisturbed right ' antral part of the city. !'. ', be remains of sites rr '.'tind are destroyed as munity develops, he DR. DEBLOOIS said found were the Cottonwood stumo remains of the main anchor posts of the west, north, east and part of the south walls of the old stbcltade. The stumps outline a stockade 60 feet on the east and west sides, and 55 feet on the north and south. He pointed out that historical records said the old stockade was 4 rods on a side, but those figures were apparently only estimates. THE COTTONWOOD posts were an average of about nine feet apart. In some cases a recognizable stump remains while in others there are only cavities and the stains where the wood has rotted away. Some of the post stumps are about 18 inches below the present surface, and go down to a depth of about three feet. Historical records say there was also a corral about 10 rods square on the northeast comer of the stockade, but no indication of its presence was found. DR. DEBLOOIS said no effort ef-fort was made to explore for the corral remains. It was situated si-tuated in a lower area where the posts could have been washed away or covered over more deeply. Part of the area has been used in the early part of this century as a railroad commissary com-missary dump, and some interesting glass and other objects from that period identified. No artifacts dating back to the time the fort was found have been recovered. DR. DEBLOOIS said Miles Goodyear came west in the waning years of the fur trade and built his fort near the Weber River in 1845, intending intend-ing to make it a trading post for emigrants heading for California and Oregon. However, he sold it to James Brown in the fall of 1847 and some of Brown's sons were probably there the next spring. THE BROWN family used it until 1850, when the site was at least partially flooded by high water from the Weber and the fort was moved to higher ground . to the southeast. It was the first of several moves for the Goodyear cabin, now on display on the LDS temple grounds in Ogden. Associated with Dr. DeBloois in the work have been Tom Scott, also an adjunct ad-junct professoj- of anthropology at WSC, and supervisor of the cultural resources evaluation center at Forest Service headquarters, and Dr. Donald C. McCor-mick, McCor-mick, associate professor of anthropology at WSC. THE PROJECT was sponsored spon-sored by the Utah Division of parks and recreation, which has plans to build a park utilizing the area. William J. Critchlow III, Ogden attorney and a descendant descen-dant of the Brown family, hailed the discovery as one of the most interesting things to happen in researching the history of Ogden. HE SAID the park could be made into a tourist attraction of area-wide interest. Mr. Critchlow and Dr. Richard W. Sadler, WSC professor of history cooperated cooperat-ed in preparing much of the historical material used in : determining where to dig for ; the site. |
