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CABANA, LOOKING SOUTHWEST - Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor and Fort Mears, Stockade, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK
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CABANA, LOOKING SOUTHWEST - Naval Operating Base Dutch Harbor and Fort Mears, Stockade, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Medium 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS AK,1-UNAK,2-X-2
Place of creation Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Unalaska
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Stockade houses American military personnel who had committed infractions. Although several Japanese prisoners were held briefly at Dutch Harbor, they were houses elsewhere. It is representative of similar complexes on other American installations built in a response to the perceived need to enforce discipline. / Built in 1943, the Stockade at Fort Mears Garrison Number Two is a complex of frame structures standing within the perimeter of a chain link fence topped by barbed wire. The square guard tower is sheathed in diagonal board and batten siding, and features a wood deck set on simple brackets at the upper level. Above, windows on all four walls provide a commanding view of the area within the perimeter of the fence as well as the surrounding countryside. A bath house and a cabana lie in ruins nearby. The Stockade houses American military personnel who had committed infractions. Although several Japanese prisoners of war were held briefly at Dutch Harbor, they were quartered elsewhere. The Stockade was abandoned when Fort Mears was declared surplus in 1952 and has deteriorated significantly.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14
  • Survey number: HABS AK-34-X
  • Building/structure dates: 1943 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 85002733.
Source/Photographer https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ak0163.photos.000281p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location53° 52′ 25″ N, 166° 32′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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