Museum director, gives us a tour showcasing the forts history, through the colonial area to its completion in 1834. And its role in the civil war. Welcome to fort mineral, located here on the very Pleasant Place we call Point Comfort, actually we call it old Point Comfort, and thats been that way for a long long time. It was here that over 400 years ago, 400 years of history have occurred. Some would say even thousands of years. Right outside the museum, happily named because youre actually the case made is nothing more than a vault inside of fort wash. Youre actually unsolved fort wall kind of unique for museums in this day and time. Were gonna walk you through the case make museum, and talk about the very interesting history that occurs here. Some of our stories reveal with the indians, the africans that first arrived here. And their plight during the American Civil War. Thousands and thousands of years ago, the natives of this land started to migrate, they migrated as far as west as
(Editorial Note: Part 191of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Sources: Cache Valley News, 1907; Preston News, 1908-191; Preston Booster 1912;Franklin County Citizen, 1914-1921 ; Hometown Album, compiled and edited by Newell Hart.)
The Cache Valley ews of March, 1907, ran an advertisement featuring the business of N. M. Degn. In one corner were the words âArt Workâ done in pretty calligraphy, then followed the confident message from Degn: âDonât let agents have your enlargement work when you can have your pictures and photos enlarged at home. Mr Degn, located in our city, is an expert in photography, having studied in the best cities of Europe. Mr.Degn, the Photographer of Photographers.â