Ft. Simcoe Officers' Row
by Charles Robinson
Title
Ft. Simcoe Officers' Row
Artist
Charles Robinson
Medium
Photograph - Landscape Photograph
Description
After the settlers, traveling over the Oregon Trail, began arriving into Central Washington in 1850, conflicts with the Indian tribes of the Yakama Nation were inevitable. Ft. Simcoe was constructed at the Mool Mool Springs, an Indian campsite at the base of the Cascade Mountains near the present day town of White Swan, in 1856 to thwart the hostilities and became the advance post of the Ninth Infantry Regiment. Ironically the fort was completed after the Treaty of 1855 was signed with the Yakama Nation, confining the Indians to the Yakama Nation Reservation. As a result the fort was never the site of any military conflicts and the fort was decommissioned in 1858 and turned over to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1859. It was used by the Bureau as the Indian agency headquarters to provide services to the Indians on the reservation and as a school for the children as well as trade skills to the adults. Efforts to preserve the site began almost immediately. There are four complete restored quarters for the officers in a row within the fort. The homes are furnished with authentic furniture of that period. The site was designated a state park in 1956 under a 99-year lease from the Yakama Nation.
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