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Use your love of history to earn Free Camping: The Commanding Officers Quarters Museum is seeking summer docents to help staff the museum. In exchange for 28 hours of work per week these docents will receive a free a RV camping space with full hookup at beautiful Fort Worden State Park.
Fort Worden Lighthouse with Mt. Baker in the background. Docents are needed to cover the months of May, June, July, August and September of 2010. Duties include greeting guests, collecting admission fees, providing visitors with an overview of the history of the home, as well as some house cleaning. If you are interested please email Steve Bailey or call 360-301-2634. The COQ is planning to open the 2010 season with two special exhibits about the Spanish American War and women's fashions of the early 1900s. Additionally, the museum will be offering a summer History Camp in July and participating in the Military History Weekend June 5 and 6, 2010.
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Buildings across the Parade Ground
Admission is $4.00 for adults and $1.00 for children 3-12. A passport is available for visitors to see the COQ museum, Rothschild House museum (seasonally) and the Jefferson County Historical Museum for a reduced rate. Visiting all three provides visitors with a wealth of information about Port Townsend, both historically and geographically.
Autumn view of Officers' Row.
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Commanding Officer's Quarters The Commanding Officer's Quarters is located at Fort Worden State Park & Conference Center, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend. The house is one of Fort Worden's finest buildings. It was completed in April 1904, and many different families resided there. Located at the head of Officers’ Row, the Commanding Officer’s Quarters overlooks Admiralty Inlet, with Mt. Baker and the Cascades in the background. Late Victorian and Edwardian furnishings provide a unique glimpse into the life of a senior U. S. Army officer and his family in the first decade of the 20th century. Click HERE for a tour.
Officers' Row, Fort Worden
Fort Worden State Park Fort Worden is an early 20th century U. S. Army (Coast Artillery Corps) fort. The Fort, as headquarters for the Puget Sound Harbor Defenses, held a strategically important position in the triangle of defensive forts constructed to protect the entrance to Puget Sound and to safeguard the naval shipyard at Bremerton. Twelve-gun batteries stand as mute testimony to the Fort's original purpose. When Fort Worden was commissioned in 1902, there were no permanent buildings to house the troops. The men were billeted in tents atop Artillery Hill until the first 23 buildings were constructed around the parade ground in 1904. Ultimately, 228 main buildings and subsidiary structures were constructed—including barracks, officers' quarters, administration buildings, kitchen and mess halls, a bakery, guard house, hospital, power house, signal station and wharf. Most military buildings of this era are long gone, but Fort Worden's have been preserved. These surviving quarters are excellent examples of the attractive order, style and grace of the new century. The designs were created by the U. S. Army Quartermaster Department in order to make life more bearable for its soldiers in the often-isolated posts.
Fort Worden State Park is on the state and national Register of Historic Places and has been declared a National Historic Landmark. |
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