Last updated: February 23, 2021
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The Enlisted Men's Rooms of Fort Clatsop
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The three rooms for the enlisted men of the Lewis and Clark expedition were likely divided between each of the three squads. The first had seven men, the second nine, and the third seven. While the rooms are small it is unlikely that they were often packed full all at the same time. After all this was a working fort, the men were always busy with one task or another. Those tasks often included hunting, guard duty, gathering firewood, repairs and construction, smithing, or for a small crew, making salt down at the salt works in modern day Seaside.
Of these rooms the middle was notably the largest on the floorplans and likely would have belonged to the largest squad. It is told through the passed down oral history of the local Clatsop nation that the room also had a large tree strump in the middle, and has earned the nickname of simply "The Stump Room."
Of these rooms the middle was notably the largest on the floorplans and likely would have belonged to the largest squad. It is told through the passed down oral history of the local Clatsop nation that the room also had a large tree strump in the middle, and has earned the nickname of simply "The Stump Room."