Day 18 - Fort Louisburg Part 2

The big building at Fort Louisburg was the King's Bastion Barracks. It was where many of soldiers barracked and today is a museum of life in the barracks. This is the altar of Kings Catholic Church with a picture of King Louis IX, who became St. Louis - the patron saint of soldiers. Interestingly this church was to be for the officers and officials, but the common men came to worship here and the church for the "commoner" was never built.

As I stated, all the rooms in the Barracks building have been turned into example rooms. This one is a typical kitchen. Notice the laundry hanging to dry.

This would be a bed room for an officer or official. All the upper class had canopy beds like this one.

Barbara with a soldier (a volunteer dressed as a common French soldier circa 1744.) The only problem here is the gender as "she" would never have been allowed in the French army.

This is an example of a typical French enlisted men's barracks.

This kitchen scene is interesting due to the various sized cups on top. They are actually liquid measure cups so liquids could be measured accurately.

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This lady is dressed in clothing of the 1744 style and is making lace by hand. It takes 50 bobbins and 1 hour and 15 minutes to make one inch of lace. This was a simple pattern. Some patterns take up to 300 bobbins!

In the home of the local engineer was the first mechanical spit for cooking meat. Imagine a running spit from 1744!