• Photo by: Max Kandler

    Fort Davis

    National Historic Site Texas

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    Our park museum will be closed April 15, 2013 till 2014. This will also affect our park orientation film screening; it will be limited to 8-10 visitors at a time. The rest of the park is open for visitation. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

Table of Contents for Grades 2-5

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I. Introduction: Cover: Curriculum Materials

A. TEKS Matrix

II. Fort Davis Comes Alive! History of Fort Davis

 A. The First Fort Davis 1854-1862 (Make a covered Wagon at http://www.nps.gov/whmi/forkids/wagon-1.htm)

B. The Second Fort Davis 1867-1891
C. Mapping the Great American Desert
D. Army Transportation and Supply at Fort Davis
E. Fort Davis and Uncle Sam's Camels

III. Meet the People at Fort Davis

A. Native Americans Who Lived and Traveled Near Fort Davis
B. The Life of a Soldier in the 19th Century
C. Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, 1867-1885
a.Use this link in this lesson Interactive PowerPoint
D.Women of Fort Davis
E. Children at Fort Davis
F. Post School at Fort Davis

IV. 19th-Century Medicine and the Fort Davis Post
Hospital

A. Post Hospital and Medicine at Fort Davis
a. Interactive Excel lessons
i. Graphing Activity
ii. Fort Davis Believe It or Not
iii. Parts of Speech Activities

V. Stewardship: Preserving and Protecting the
Resources of Fort Davis National Historic Site
A. Review the Rules of the Park

Did You Know?

Photo of officer's row during winter.

For diversion the troops at Fort Davis had a library, a chapel, and a school, the latter usually presided over by the chaplain. But off-duty pastimes also included gambling, drinking, and sampling the pleasures of the village of Chihuahua just off the fort grounds.