"Living and in fine condition"

ID: 4736 ~ Source: Music: John Baltzell, "The Old Red Barn Medley Quadrille"
This file appears in: The Orchard at Ft. Spokane

Superintendent Frank Avery's 1902 report on improvements to the boarding school

This file appears in: The Orchard at Ft. Spokane

By Charlie Byers
Starting in 1902, the Indian children at the Fort Spokane boarding school tended this orchard. As part of “civilizing” the natives, the school taught native children to farm. The children, some as young as six years old, had to grow potatoes, wash…