Pix/ideas Winter Quarters

[27VA]

Re: Pix/ideas Winter Quarters

Thanks
looked at this post...good personal accounts not alot of pix or drawings
White Oaks web page only has two small pix of the reproduction huts they have inside, and its been 2 yrs since I've been there. Those are the ones I'm after.

Thanks keep them coming

[JimConley]

Re: Pix/ideas Winter Quarters

http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14665

[BrandonEnglish]

Re: Pix/ideas Winter Quarters

Hey Shawn,

I don't know where you live, but if you can check out the winter hut and commissary hut at Pamplin Park they are worth a look. I helped build them when I worked there using all period tools and methods. We planked the floor and used bricks for a fireplace (this represented, for a time, an officers quarters). All we used for mortar was mud mixed with pine straw and it worked great, I spent many a winter day warm and cozy i there with a small fire going.

[27VA]

Gents

Anyone have pictures of recreated winter quarters they have built? A few pards and I are in the process of building a few for a scenerio on my farm. The prior threads have discussions but not alot of designs or pix. The examples at White Oak Museum are great both inside and out, anyone have better pic of the indoor examples. I believe they are partially underground?
Our first attempt was without levels, squares or measuring implements only a rope for measuring and crude tools. The mortor/chinking concoction was a test and building a fireplace that actually drawed right another. We did use some rough cut boards for end gables.
On another note any recommended period recounts about Life in the Huts during winter, would like to read them at our scenerio.
Thanks