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This brass plate was excavated at Fort Zarah in 1969 by Kansas Historical Society archeologists. The plate advertises "BEARD & BRO" of "ST. LOUIS, MO." This may be a reference to the Beard and Brother company of St. Louis, established in 1848, that manufactured safes, vaults, cotton ties, and a nut-lock for safes. The fort was a small outpost on the Santa Fe trail in Barton County occupied from 1864 to 1869. The trading post building within the post, where the plate was found, burned in 1868.
Date: 1864-1868
Item Number: 455143
Call Number: 14BT301-104
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 455143
Built Environment - National Register of Historic Places
Business and Industry - Manufacturing
Collections - Archeology
Military - Facilities - Forts - Fort Zarah
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts
Places - Counties - Barton
Places - Forts and military installations - Fort Zarah
Places - Other States - Missouri - St. Louis
Thematic Time Period - Trails, 1821 - 1880 - Santa Fe Trail
Transportation - Trails - Santa Fe
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