Woolbert's Stockade Hotel

Woolbert's Stockade Hotel - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

In spring 1860 the Washington Town Company laid out the town site of Washington, Kansas. A log cabin was built as the headquarters of the town company and this became known as the Washington Company House. The logs of this building were set up perpendicular, so the outside of the building resembled a stockade. One of its uses was to serve as a place of refuge when problems arose with area Indians opposed to white settlement of the area.Historical Plat Book of Washington County, Kansas (Chicago: J. S, Bird, 1882), pp. 30, 90. Read more on Wikipedia

type: military structure
date from: 1860

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