Fort Yamhill State Heritage Area: Connecting Place and People project
OSPT seeking funds for the first of three project phases
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This important historic preservation project will restore and reconstruct one of Oregon’s most significant cultural and historic sites—Fort Yamhill—providing present and future generations with opportunities to experience and learn about this notable place and time in Oregon and United States history.
Oregon State Parks Trust is seeking funds for the first of three planned phases of the Fort Yamhill SHA: Connection Place and People project. This initial phase will include:
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Restoration of Fort Yamhill’s Officer’s Quarters (one-time home for then-Lieutenant (later General) Philip Sheridan.
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Rebuilding its imposing blockhouse.
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Planning and engineering future “ghost structures” for most of the other building sites at the fort.
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Designing and installing signs to help interpret the restored and new structures.
Subsequent phases of the project will include: fabricating and
installing the 18 ghost structures, rebuilding and erecting the fort’s
200’ flagpole, constructing a small visitor center at the site of the
original sutler store, developing and putting structures into place
that protect and display archaeological remains, continuing to conduct
archaeological excavations, and creating public archaeology
opportunities.
Once completed, we envision Fort Yamhill as Oregon’s first “archaeological state park.”
