Engineer Cantonment
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Engineer Cantonment is an archaeological site in Washington County, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Located in the floodplain of the Missouri River near present-day Omaha, Ne
Excavations at Engineer Cantonment, 2015
Stephen H. Long
Thomas Say
Boxelder bug, discovered by Say at Engineer Cantonment
Fort Atkinson (Nebraska)
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Fort Atkinson was the first United States Army post to be established west of the Missouri River in the unorganized region of the Louisiana Purchase of the United States. Located just east of present-
Engineer Cantonment
…Missouri. Intended to be a permanent post, Cantonment Missouri was destroyed by floods the following spring, and abandoned in favor of a new site, Fort Atkinson, atop the bluffs and out of the floodplain. Long remained at Engineer Cantonment until October, when he returned eastward. He was accompanied by geologist…
Powder magazine at Fort Atkinson
Detail of (reconstructed) west rampart barracks