Fort St. Anthony Map Marginal Notes

Transcribed by Minnesota Historical Society map curator Jon Walstrom
April 1997

Upper Margin

Description.

Building No 1. Comdg. Officers quarters of hewn stone, highly finished - it is two stories high in rear & one in front - the upper story contains 2 large parlors & two small rooms with a very spacious entry through the building - the lower story contains an office - kitchen - cellars &c --

No.2. Officers quarters - Stone Basement - upper story of hewn timber. In this block there are fourteen parlors & fourteen bedrooms in the upper story & fourteen large kitchens below -

3. Soldiers quarters - of hewn timber. fourteen large rooms.

4. Soldiers quarters of stone - - - Ten large rooms.

5. Hospital & for other uses - of stone. Ten large rooms.

No. 6.. Guard House. Stone building. 2. Rooms.

7.. Sutlers Store. Stone building. 2. Rooms. all the wooden Buildings are to be clapboarded & painted, The chimneys are all of brick except in No 3, which are of handsome square stone - The roofs are all covered with good pine shingles - 2 Windows in each room of 20 squares 8 by 10 glass. - all the buildings front to the centre of the parade -

No 8. Stone Magazine. No 9. Circular Tower of stone

10. Stone Block House. No 13. Stone Block House

12. Stone Bastion.

Right Margin

No 11. Stone building - four stories high on the outside - and one story on the inside, erected on the side of the perpendicular hill - It is 110 feet long - & it contains four large rooms for the subsistence department & four small rooms for the Quarter Masters department - It is sufficiently large for the storage of all the provisions & public stores at the Post -

No 14. Is a Well.

15. Gateway.

17. Temporary Bake house near the river - a Stone bake house is to be built at No 50.

16. Washwomens quarters - 8 rooms of hewn timber, on the bank of the river -

Left Margin

No 20 Is the exterior wall that encloses the work. It is about 3 feet thick & 9 feet high, and faced handsomely on both sides -

The boat represented is the kind that navigates this river - They are long and narrow, flat bottom - with a mast that can be raised or lowered at pleasure - They carry from one to five hundred Barrels, & require from 4 to 20 hands to navigate them - against a rapid current & without the benefit of wind they are propelled by poles - In still water or down the current Oars are used -

Lower Margin

Topographical Sketch of Fort ST: Anthony at the Confluence of the Rivers Mississippi & St. Peters. Scale: One hundred feet to an inch. April 11th 1823. North Lat: 44_ 54 degrees West 14_ 45 degrees from Washington.

The site on which the Fort stands is a point of land as will be seen by the plan - from Block houseNo 10 to Block house No 13 the fort is almost inaccessible - the hill being nearly perpendicular - the road is cut on the side of the hill & is walled up upon the outside to prevent its caving down -

(This plan executed by a soldier of the 5th Regmt)