Peacekeeper Program Cultural Resources Technical Report 4: Fort D.A. Russell/ F.E. Warren, Volume I

Part of the F.E. Warren AFB Project Metadata project

Author(s): Tetra Tech, Inc.

Year: 1987

Summary

As part of the U.S. Air Force Peacekeeper Program, historical archaeological investigations were conducted from July 1983 to June 1985 at various proposed and final project localities within and adjacent to the Fort David A. Russell/Francis E. Warren Historic District on F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Thirty-eight historic archaeological sites were identified within proposed project areas using historic maps, plans, accounts, perspectives, and aerial photographs that were verified by archaeological surveys, subsurface tests, and mitigation excavations. A chronology of construction, use, and demolition of major structures built at Fort D.A. Russell between 1867 and 1905 was developed. The majority of buildings constructed during this 38-year period no longer survive, so the chronology provides a framework to identify and date structural locations that occur today only as archaeological sites. Historic maps, plans, accounts, and perspectives identifying the earliest historic structures at Fort D.A. Russell are reproduced to substantiate inferences and to provide future researchers with an accurately dated inventory of available documents.

Cite this Record

Peacekeeper Program Cultural Resources Technical Report 4: Fort D.A. Russell/ F.E. Warren, Volume I. Tetra Tech, Inc.. 1987 ( tDAR id: 470774) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8470774

Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
.20 M2 Bullet • .30 Caliber Colt Long Cartridge Case • .30 Government Cartridge Case • .30 Krag Bullets • .30 M1 Bullet, Government Model of 1906 • .38 Long Colt Bullet • .45 ACP Cupronickel Jacket Bullet • .45-Caliber Ball • .45 Government Cartridges • .45 Smith and Wesson Schofield Cartridges • .50 Government Bullets • 1906 Tracer Bullet • 1909 Lincoln-head Penny • Aircraft Gun Cartridge Case • Alcohol Bottle • Aqua Glass • Axle Grease Can Lid • Barbed Wire • Black Glass Bottles • Black Target Fabric • Blank Cartridge Case for Dummy Bullet • Bolt • Brick • Brown Glazed Ceramic Insulator • Building Materials • Burned Soil • Button • Cartridge Casing • Cartridge Clips • Cedar Cribbing • Ceramic • Ceramic Tableware • Ceramic Toy • Chimney Glass • Chimney Lamp • Clear Glass • Clinker • Clothes Hanger • Cloth Fabric • Coal • Coca Cola Bottle • Concrete • Construction Debris • Construction Fastener • Corset Clasp • Crescent Wrench • Crown Cap • Dr. Pepper Green Bottle • Fauna • Faunal Remains • Ferrous Cask Hoop • Furnace Refuse • Galvanized Flashing • Glass • Hardware Strap • Harness Hook • Harness Strap • Hide • Horseshoe • Irrigation Water Pipe • Jar • Journal Post • Lampshade • Leather • Livery Related • Lumber • Machine Cut Nail • Melted Bullets • Metal • Metal Scissors • Mineral • Miscellaneous Metal Hardware • Nineteenth-Century Debris • Nut • Olive Green Glass • Parts of Possible Escort Wagon Bed • Penknife • Pine Post • planks • Plaster • Post • Recreational Beverage Bottles • Red Glass • Refuse from late nineteenth century • Rifle Cleaning Rod Handle • Sandstone Rubble • Sheet Rubber • Shrapnel from Unidentified Artillery Shell • Single Worn Ox Shoe • Slate Fragments • Solarized Purple Glass • Soldered-Seam Cans • Spring Stop • square nails • Stemware • Stove Parts • Strap Metal • Strapping Splice • Suspender Buckle • Tableware • Target Debris • Textile • Tile Fragment • Tin Can • Tin Can Lid • Tin Corner Brace • Tumbler • Utensil • Watch Chain • Window Glass • Wine Bottle • Wire • Wire Nail • Wood • Wooden Cask • Wooden Debris • Wooden Dowels • Wooden Wedge • Wood Screw • Writing Implement • Wrought Staples Show More

Site Name
48-LA-106 • 48-LA-284 • 48-LA-285 • 48-LA-443 • 48-LA-445 • 48-LA-446 • 48-LA-448 • 48-LA-482 • 48-LA-483 • 48-LA-484 • 48-LA-496 • 48-LA-541 • 48-LA-71A • 48-LA-71AA • 48-LA-71B • 48-LA-71BB • 48-LA-71C • 48-LA-71D • 48-LA-71E • 48-LA-71F • 48-LA-71G • 48-LA-71I • 48-LA-71II • 48-LA-71J • 48-LA-71JJ • 48-LA-71K • 48-LA-71KK • 48-LA-71L • 48-LA-71M • 48-LA-71MM • 48-LA-71N • 48-LA-71P • 48-LA-71Q • 48-LA-71R • 48-LA-71S • 48-LA-71T • 48-LA-71U • 48-LA-71V • 48-LA-71W • 48-LA-71X • 48-LA-71Y • 48-LA-71Z • 71Q • Building 1 • Building 10 • Building 12 • Building 14 • Building 16 • Building 18 • Building 2 • Building 20 • Building 202 • Building 207 • Building 21 • Building 210 • Building 212 • Building 213 • Building 214 • Building 215 • Building 216 • Building 217 • Building 218 • Building 22 • Building 220 • Building 222 • Building 223 • Building 224 • Building 24 • Building 25 • Building 26 • Building 27 • Building 274 • Building 275 • Building 28 • Building 31 • Building 348 • Building 36 • Building 38 • Building 50 • Building 52 • Building 56 • Building 58 • Building 60 • Building 62 • Building 64 • Building 7 • FEW 221 • FEW 223 Show More

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Brick Structure • Cairn • Cellar • Defense Access Roads • Frame Structure • Happy Jack Road Realignment • Heating Distribution Lines • Historic Archaeological Site • Historic Structure • Ice House • Laundress'/married men's quarters • LF Trainer • Midden • Military Structure • Non-Domestic Structures • Pistol Range • Pit • Post Hole / Post Mold • Refuse Disposal Sites • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Roads-Industrial Area • Rock Alignment • Stage Storage Area • Stairway • Storage Pit • Structure • Target House • Trainer and Instruction Facility • Trash Midden • twentieth-century construction debris • Utilities-Power/Other-Industrial Area • Wooden Staircase • WWII Antitank and Booby Trap Training Area Show More

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research

General
Peacekeeper Program • United States Air Force • United States Department of Agriculture • Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department • Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Geographic Keywords
Cheyenne, WY • F.E. Warren Air Force Base • Laramie (County) • Wyoming (State / Territory)

Temporal Keywords
1910s • Air Force Period • Early 20th Century • Early Twentieth Century • Indian Wars Period • Indian Wars to Spanish-American War Period • Late Nineteenth Century • Nineteenth Century • Twentieth Century • World War II • World War I to World War II

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1885 to 1900 (Indian Wars to Spanish-American War Period)

Calendar Date: 1903 to 1903 (Irrigation Water Pipe)

Calendar Date: 1901 to 1913 (Post Spanish-American War to World War I Period)

Calendar Date: 1889 to 1893 (Alcohol Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1889 to 1889 (DAR 160, Water Tank)

Calendar Date: 1897 to 1900 (Fourth Phase)

Calendar Date: 1954 to 1971 (Coca Cola Trademarked Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1905 to 1905 (.38 Caliber Colt Long Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1884 to 1896 (Bullet Stop associated with Target Pit 4)

Calendar Date: 1884 to 1897 (First known Target Practice Area)

Calendar Date: 1873 to 1894 (.45 Caliber Springfield Rifle)

Calendar Date: 1912 to 1926 (Cupronickel Jacketed Tinned)

Calendar Date: 1914 to 1920 (Alcohol Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1889 to 1889 (DAR 150, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1947 (.45 Caliber Revolver Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1890 to 1890 (DAR 170, Flushing Tank)

Calendar Date: 1886 to 1920 (Alcohol Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1889 to 1889 (.45 Government Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1874 to 1883 (Irrigation Water Tanks)

Calendar Date: 1913 to 1987 (Subsequent Construction Periods)

Calendar Date: 1884 to 1884 (DAR 100, Water Tank)

Calendar Date: 1903 to 1926 (Steel Tank Water Tower, Storage 206)

Calendar Date: 1871 to 1871 (Completion of Cheyenne City Water Ditch)

Calendar Date: 1875 to 1892 (Headstamped .44 Cartridge)

Calendar Date: 1911 to 1957 (.30-06 Caliber Blank Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1906 to 1919 (Cartridge Clip)

Calendar Date: 1868 to 1875 (Fort D.A. Russell Lower Crow Creek Dam)

Calendar Date: 1895 to 1896 (Copper-Jacketed Bullets)

Calendar Date: 1867 to 1889 (Domestic Refuse Deposit)

Calendar Date: 1908 to 1911 (Contract and Installation of Three Primary Water Mains)

Calendar Date: 1893 to 1894 (Third Phase)

Calendar Date: 1903 to 1903 (DAR 210, Water Tank)

Calendar Date: 1890 to 1890 (Skirmish Range)

Calendar Date: 1888 to 1909 (Railway Station No.98, Building 87)

Calendar Date: 1902 to 1902 (.38 Caliber Colt Long Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1886 to 1886 (DAR 110, Tank)

Calendar Date: 1873 to 1882 (405 grain bullet)

Calendar Date: 1877 to 1894 (Corset Clasp)

Calendar Date: 1910 to 1945 (Third Fixed-distance Range)

Calendar Date: 1855 to 1884 (Uniform Button)

Calendar Date: 1903 to 1903 (Construction of Underground Watering System)

Calendar Date: 1884 to 1918 (Children's Toy: Marbles)

Calendar Date: 1905 to 1905 (DAR 220, Steel Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1894 to 1894 (DAR 175, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1866 to 1873 (.50 Caliber Springfield Rifle)

Calendar Date: 1888 to 1888 (DAR 130, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1894 to 1896 (.39 Krag bullet Issued from Frankfort Arsenal)

Calendar Date: 1887 to 1890 (Second Phase)

Calendar Date: 1926 to 1926 (DAR 250)

Calendar Date: 1902 to 1902 (DAR 195, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1883 to 1897 (48-LA-71Y site date)

Calendar Date: 1885 to 1885 (Construction of Water Impoundment System)

Calendar Date: 1933 to 1964 (Unidentified Alcoholic Beverage Bottle marked: "Federal Law Forbids")

Calendar Date: 1909 to 1948 (Second Fort D.A. Russell Railway Station, Building 371)

Calendar Date: 1910 to 1910 (.45 Colt Revolver Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1909 to 1929 (White Paste, Vitrified, Opaque, Decalcomania Plate)

Calendar Date: 1908 to 1908 (.30 Cartridge)

Calendar Date: 1896 to 1896 (Target Range Abandonment)

Calendar Date: 1886 to 1905 (Coopered Water Tank)

Calendar Date: 1918 to 1918 (.30 Government Model of 1906 Aircraft Gun Cartridge Cases)

Calendar Date: 1874 to 1887 (Major Operation of Cheyenne to Black Hills Stage Road)

Calendar Date: 1867 to 1884 (Indian Wars Period)

Calendar Date: 1874 to 1874 (Flavoring Extract Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1867 to 1889 (Domestic Refuse Deposit)

Calendar Date: 1871 to 1911 (Cheyenne Ditch)

Calendar Date: 1884 to 1884 (Small Arms Target Ranges)

Calendar Date: 1898 to 1898 (DAR 180B, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1887 to 1887 (DAR 120, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1883 to 1883 (500 grain .45 bullet)

Calendar Date: 1894 to 1896 (.30 Krag Bullet)

Calendar Date: 1899 to 1899 (DAR 190, Water Tower)

Calendar Date: 1887 to 1981 (.22 Caliber Long Rifle Cartridge Case)

Calendar Date: 1906 to 1942 (.30 Government Model of 1906 Cartridge Cases)

Calendar Date: 1880 to 1899 (Complete Alcohol Bottle)

Calendar Date: 1851 to 1880 (Infantry Uniform Button marked SCOVILL MFG. CO./WATERBURY)

Calendar Date: 1908 to 1940 (.25 Caliber Auto Pistol)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -104.898; min lat: 41.129 ; max long: -104.83; max lat: 41.211 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): F.E. Warren Air Force Base CRM Manager

Record Identifiers

FEW AFB Project #(s): 870101

Target Pit No.(s): FEW 225; FEW 218; FEW 219; FEW 226; FEW 227; FEW 217; FEW 220

Building No. (s): 38

Artifact No.(s): 48-LA-71-7678

DAR Plan No.(s): DAR 80; DAR 100; DAR 90; DAR 40; DAR 50; DAR 60; DAR 110; DAR 70A

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