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Superintendent's Lodge, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, MT

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Superintendent's Lodge, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, MT

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Summary

Significance: Constructed in 1894 to house a Superintendent who was to oversee the placing of grave markers for General Custer and the men of the United States Seventh Cavalry who perished in the Battle of Big Horn. Custer Battlefield was made a National Cemetery by Order of the Secretary of War in 1879, three years after the Custer Massacre. The 1.2 square miles of the monument is surrounded almost entirely by the Crow Indian Reservation.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7
Survey number: HABS MT-7
Building/structure dates: 1894 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1909 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1952 Subsequent Work

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Date

1937 - 1970
person

Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Custer
U.S. War Department
DeHaas, John N, historian
DeHaas, John N, photographer
place

Location

Crow Agency45.60414, -107.46453
Google Map of 45.6041414, -107.4645278
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Source

Library of Congress
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Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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