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Camp Floyd GazetteNewsletter o the Friends o Camp Floyd

Vol. 3 Winter 2014 No. 1

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Curators Cornery: Megan Keller

Te winter can be slow orisitation at Camp Floyd, but were hard at work planning or thepring and summer. Tis winter

we are ocusing on collections, newrograms, grants, and exhibits.

Camp Floyd has over about 140oxes o aunal remains rom thercheological digs at Camp Floydn the 80s and 90s. Tese are

mostly cow bones, but also includehe remains o birds and othermall mammals. Trough studyinghese remains, archeologists canetermine not only what theoldiers ate at Camp Floyd, butow the animals were butchered.

reviously, these boxes weretored at the Utah State Parksorth region office. Some wereven stored in garbage bags. Camployd received money rom thetate to rehouse these items intooxes and we moved them toort Douglas Military Museums

repository. Fort Douglas alreadyhouses Camp Floyds archeologicalcollection and now all the materialsare together in one place. Our hopeis to attract a graduate researchstudent to do zooarchologicalresearch on the aunal remains tolearn more about Camp Floyd.

We recently completed an exhibiton Capitan racys sketches.racy was an excellent artist andsketched many scenes on hisway to and at Camp Floyd. Lastyear, we ound the approximantlocation o our o his sketches andtook photographs. Each sketch ispaired with a photo o the sameview in present day. Looking at thesame areas then and now, you cansee the same mountains and small

changes in the landscape overtime.Come see the new exhibit at CampFloyd!

I you have any questions orconcerns, please contact me atMeganKeller@utah.gov or (801)768-8932.

Tese boxes o aunal bone are nowhoused at Fort Douglas.

New racy exhibit at CampFloyd.

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Programs Coming to Camp Floyd

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Camp Floyd is hosting a Murder Mystery Afernoon onMarch 1st. Participants will start by playing the samegames the soldiers played like Faro, Chuck-a-luck, andthree-card monte to win double eagle chocolate coins.

Afer a ake murder occurs, participants will work togetherto uncover the culprit.

On April 5th at 10am, we will have our seconQuest o the Pony Express. Te 5k run will

reenact the ride rom Camp Floyd to St. JosepMissouri and back. Registration will start in ea

February. Visit Campfloyd.utah.gov to registeand find more inormation.

During the winter months,Park Manager Mark rotterofen makes items at Camp

Floyds woodshop orthe park. Currently, he isworking on a writing desk

which will be used orJohnstons Army AdventureCamp this spring. Te new

desk will hold a quill and inkand allow boy scouts to sign-

up or the army.

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Camp Floyd State Park has a standard eBay alert on Camp Floyd items just in case anythingwere to pop up on the online auction site. Its always good to be prepared! Te other day wepurchased an engraving o an image o Camp Floyd rom Bucharest, Romaina produced or aFrench publication called Le our Du Monde. Published in 1862, its exciting to imagine aninternational audience learning about Camp Floyd so soon afer its closure. Although we do

not currently have a translation, the article is peppered with words relating to the location andsoliders stationed at Camp Floyd.

Do you speak French? ranslating computer programs can only do so much and wed loveyour help to translate the article. E-mail MeganKeller@utah.gov or more inormation.

Camp Floyd Abroad or

Parlez-vous Franais?

Friends o Camp Floyd is a not or profit 501c(3)organized in 2010 as a private educational partner toCamp Floyd / Stagecoach Inn State Park and Museum.

Friends o Camp Floyd invites you to be involved our

orgainization. We assist Park Managament with activites,seek to acilitate the purchase o privately owned landwithin the boundaries o Camp Floyd, and want to havea Visitors Center/Museum and other replica buildings

in this historic location. Inormation may be obtainedby e-mailing the Friends o Camp Floyd President RusFelt at Russ@eltonline.com.

Te Friends o Camp Floyd meets the first Tursday o

each month at 7pm in the Lehi City Historical Archiveat 2100 North and North Pointe Drive in the old SatellitLibrary Building.

Tis is a low-quality copy o the image Camp Floyd recently purchased on ebay rom Romania.

We are looking forward to another very successful Memorial Day Weekend and are making plans four organization. We also are compiling poetry submitted to the Valley Tan (newspaper of the Cam

Floyd era) by soldiers and anticipate publishing it in booklet form. We are also refining our goals aobjectives for the coming year. We welcome new members. - Russ Felt, President

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MurderMystery

Friends of CampFloyd meeting

Cub ScoutProgram

History CampRegistration Starts

Friends of CampFloyd Meeting

Geocachereasure Hunt

Friends of CampFloyd meeting

Qust of the PonyExpress 5k run

FamilyProgram

Cub ScoutProgram

AdventureCamp

AdventureCamp

Go to campfloyd.utah.gov to see all Camp Floyds events!