Fort Douglas Military Museum
Fort Douglas Military Museum
Camp Douglas was established in October 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail route and telegraph lines along the Central Overland Route. In 1878, the post was renamed Fort Douglas.
The fort was officially closed in 1991 and most of the buildings turned over to the University of Utah. A small section of the original fort is used by the Army Reserve and includes the Fort Douglas Military Museum.
This visit to Salt Lake City is actually in four parts:
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Part 3 - Temple Square A Walk Inside:
Part 4 - Fort Douglas Museum:
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- Heritage Museum of Layton
Roy
- Hill Aerospace Museum Part 1
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Fort Douglas military museum
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Salt Lake City: History of Fort Douglas
Learn the history of the military fort created by the federal government to monitor Brigham Young and his growing settlement in what is now Salt Lake City. Abraham Lincoln ordered the creation of the fort during the Civil War to monitor the LDS population and to maintain clear passage routes out west.
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Fort Douglas Utah Artillery Review, 1887 to Korean War
This is a review of the artillery on display at the Fort Douglas Historical Museum in Salt lake City Utah. It ranges from an 1887 cannon to Japanese artillery, to a PAK 40 to a 155MM Long Tom Towed Howitzer. It has some more of the pir8hntr style weathering review included.
Top 13. Best Museums in Salt Lake City - Travel Utah
Top 13. Best Museums in Salt Lake City - Travel Utah: Natural History Museum of Utah, Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Church History Museum, Wheeler Historic Farm, Clark Planetarium, The Leonardo Museum, Pioneer Memorial Museum, Discovery Gateway, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Douglas Military Museum, Art at the Main Gallery, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Classic Cars International Antique Auto Museum of Utah
Camp Floyd Utah 1860 Video #4
Camp Floyd computer animated tour with caption over the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. See the Redoubt, Stores, Hospital and Sutlers buildings. See the Adobe Officers Quarters in a tour through where 1/3 of the US Army was stationed at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Ghostly Guardians and the haunting of Old Fort Douglas This is from the movie Ghostly Guardian
Ghostly Guardians and the haunting of Old Fort Douglas -- This is from the movie Ghostly Guardians, written and directed by Brian Jackson Fetzer and features the song When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Ghostly Guardians
(Directed by Brian Jackson Fetzer -- approximately 83 minutes)
This movie is about the real ghost stories of Old Fort Douglas. Directed by Brian Jackson Fetzer, Ghostly Guardians is an artistic documenting of the accounts of paranormal happenings at historic Old Fort Douglas in Salt Lake City, Utah. For nearly a century now there have been reports of ghostly occurrences at this haunting place. Clem, the old Union soldier who apparently senses the need to guard the old fort, the mysterious footsteps and the lady in purple, are all part of this capturing of spooky cultural history. Three years in the making it is an exquisite glimpse into eerie narratives of the metaphysical.
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From Deseret News archives:
Storyteller's film spotlights ghostly goings-on at Fort Douglas
Published: Friday, Oct. 14, 2005 12:00 a.m. MDT
By Jeff Vice, Deseret News
Brian Jackson Fetzer knows a good story when he hears one. After all, he has taught storytelling at the University of Utah, Brigham Young University and Salt Lake Community College.
One of the best stories he's heard involves a series of ghostly sightings and activities at Fort Douglas, the old U.S. Army encampment located just east of the University of Utah campus. The fort has played host to all sorts of paranormal and metaphysical activities, including hauntings, said Fetzer, who has spent the past couple of years looking into the stories.
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Brian Jackson Fetzer will be showing Ghostly Guardians film at Fort Douglas.
In fact, he has used them as the subject of a documentary film titled Ghostly Guardians, which examines reports of hauntings witnessed by Fort Douglas employees and visitors.
Fetzer said he has tried to look at these reports with an unbiased eye, as objectively and scientifically as possible. And at the same time, he wanted to use his professional storytelling skills to present the stories dramatically.
They're absolutely fascinating. I'm a little surprised that I was the first person to think of making a movie about them, he said, adding that there have been television and newspaper reports about the spectral goings-on.
Probably the most well-known of these involves Clem, the spirit of a Civil War-period soldier that is said to be roaming the Fort Douglas Military Museum. Some of the employees there say they have not only heard spooky noises in the museum but have also seen him move objects. (According to Fetzer, those who have witnessed Clem's poltergeist activities do not believe Clem is the entity's actual name, but that the nickname came from a local Boy Scout troop.)
Fetzer is not saying whether he believes in ghosts, though he does find former museum curator Jess McCall's eyewitness reports compelling. You can tell that he certainly believes that he has come into contact with Clem — more than once. His story is so consistent, and he doesn't hesitate in telling it at all.
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EVP at Fort Douglas, UT
This is EVP recordings that were recorded in October 2007, during a paranormal investigation at Fort Douglas, Utah.
Ghost Tracking Urban Railroads. The Salt Lake & Fort Douglas 2
This week we are back to the Salt Lake and Fort Douglas Railroad to finish looking at the line to Fort Douglas, Red Buttte Canyon, Salt Lake Brewery and Wagener's Brewery. Cool old photos of a time when beer flowed and steam trains ran in the streets of Salt Lake City!
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Fort Douglas Cafe Paranormal investigation
This is our investigation of Fort Douglas with Cafe Paranormal. This is just a little segment I filmed in the first building The Pierre Lassonde House Let me know if you think you see or hear something strange in the video.
Camp Salina Utah (WW2 POW Camp)
Camp Salina is an old POW camp located in Salina Utah and is remembered for the “worst massacre at a POW camp in U.S. history, the Utah Prisoner of War Massacre.
During WW2 the camp had 43 tents, an officers quarter and 3 guard towers and held around 250 German soldiers. On July 7, 1945 a soldier named Private Bertucci climbed the one of the guard towers with a .30-caliber M1917 machine gun and opened fire on the sleeping Germans.
Bertucci shot 30 of the 43 tents where the German POWs were sleeping killing 9 prisoners and wounding 20 others. Berucci is reported to have then been taken into custody without any resistance by his fellow soldiers and is quoted saying Get more ammo! I'm not done yet! before stopping.
Bertucci was later declared insane by the military and hospitalized. The victims of the viscous attack were buried with full military honors at Fort Douglas cemetery.
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Official Documentary | Camp Floyd - Forgotten City In The Desert
Step back in time with this historical documentary about the pre-civil war troops who were sent to the Utah Territory to squell the Mormon Uprising and the legacy they left behind.
In it's time, Camp Floyd was one of the United States most strategically important military outposts. The Largest Military base in the country and the second largest city in Utah, Camp Floyd's legacy is now little more than a single commissary building. This documentary brings to light the story of Camp Floyd through the eyes of soldiers, immigrants, slaves and Mormons.
More information about Camp Floyd can be found on the web.
This documentary is a project developed in conjunction with the UVU History Department and the UVU Digital Media Department, giving history and film students an opportunity to gain hands on experience within a production environment.
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Camp Floyd, Utah 1858
In 1857 2500 U.S. troops marched to Utah to squash the suspected Mormon Rebellion. In 1858 3500 troops established Camp Floyd, 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. In 1860 they were recalled at the start of Civil War.
Governor Gary R. Herbert: Fallen Warrior Memorial Ceremony
Utah's Fallen Warrior Memorial Dedication at Fort Douglas Military Museum received a piece of the slurry wall from the original Twin Towers in New York City. The Stone will be part of the Museum's Memorial Park that will honor the serviceman and women from Utah who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Hill Aerospace Museum Part 1
Hill Aerospace Museum
Hill Aerospace Museum, located in Roy, Utah, is part of the United States Air Force Heritage Program. The Museum, outside one of the gates at Hill Air Force Base, is between Ogden and Salt Lake City. The Museum was founded in 1981 and moved to its current location in 1991.
In 1996, the Museum became home to the Utah Aviation Hall of Fame which was established to recognize individuals in the State of Utah who have distinguished themselves through heroic accomplishments as civil or military aviators or by fostering exceptionally noteworthy advances in the State of Utah's aviation programs. The first act, after the move, was to enshrine the initial thirteen inductees for the Hall of Fame. Since then, a number of well deserving members have been added to the Hall of Fame.
This is Part 1 of a 2 part series. Part 2 can be seen at:
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Salt Lake City
- Fort Douglas Military Museum
- Temple Square Part 1
- Salt Lake Temple Square Walk Inside
- Salt Lake Tabernacle
Layton
- Heritage Museum of Layton
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HISTORICAL PLACES OF UTAH STATE,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH PART THREE ( 3/3 )
HISTORICAL PLACES OF UTAH STATE,U S A PART THREE (3/3)
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1. UTAH CITY HALL,SALT LAKE CITY 40°45'34.78N 111°53'12.84W
2. PARADE OF ELEPHANTS ARCH,MOAB 38°41'23.90N 109°32'28.27W
3. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,SALT LAKE CITY 40°46'11.01N 111°52'48.70W
4. QUEENS ARCH,MONTICELLO 37°45'40.56N 109°50'28.74W
5. OQUIRRH MOUNTAIN LDS TEMPLE,SOUTH JORDAN 40°33'4.12N 111°59'15.24W
6. FROG,BERYL 37°53'43.04N 113°35'13.15W
7. KIRK ARCH,MONTICELLO 37°59'26.67N 109°45'40.12W
8. KENNECOTT SMOKESTACK (1215 FT) MAGNA 40°43'18.70N 112°11'52.06W
9. FORTRESS ARCH,MOAB 38° 3'25.03N 109°44'19.92W
10. LDS TEMPLE,OGDEN 41°13'39.50N 111°58'17.39W
11. LONG ARCH,MOAB 38° 0'14.54N 109°41'34.91W
12. FORT DOUGLAS MILITARY MUSEUM,SALT LAKE CITY 40°45'50.67N 111°50'0.24W
13. DOUBLE ARCHES,MOAB 38°41'31.45N 109°32'23.12W
14. THIS IS THE PLACE MONUMENT,SALT LAKE CITY 40°45'7.34N 111°48'58.28W
15. GOTHIC ARCH,MOAB 38° 5'19.96N 109°44'12.35W
16. RAILROAD MUSEUM,OGDEN 41°13'14.81N 111°58'46.79W
17. TURRET ARCH,MOAB 38°41'3.91N 109°32'5.69W
18. MOUNT TIMPANOGOS UTAH TEMPLE,AMERICAN FORK 40°23'34.74N 111°46'13.91W
19. CASTLE PEAK,GOBLIN VALLEY 38°34'44.36N 110°43'12.24W
20. NATURAL ARCH,THOMPSON 38°47'26.11N 109°36'26.52W
21. LDS TEMPLE,BOUNTIFUL 40°52'58.62N 111°50'48.46W