Fort Stevens

[kevin_standlee]

On Friday afternoon, after turning in the last of the Day Jobbery, Lisa and I drove up to Warrenton to spend a few hours at Fort Stevens State Park. We went to the military portion of the park, which is the preserved remnants of the former US Army base established at the mouth of the Columbia River during the US Civil War that was active until

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[pcornelius]

The disappearing gun carriage seen here, known as the "Buffington-Crozier" type, was designed by William Crozier, one of the US delegates to the Hague Peace Conference of 1899, and later responsible for the adoption of the Gantt Chart. In 1894 they cost fifty thousand dollars apiece.