Well, Adobe Hospital and Hospital Steward's Quarters

In 1868 post surgeon William H. Forwood reported that drinking water was brought by wagon from the creek and placed in barrels in the yards because several wells 15 to 40 feet deep had sulphurous water that was mostly not used; the well behind the infantry barracks was among those at the post. The old adobe hospital had been erected in 1860, and after the hospital was relocated to the east barracks in 1871, that building was converted into quarters for the post ordnance sergeant, with the cellar used as the magazine. A frame building constructed in 1874 served as quarters for the hospital steward, a high-ranking NCO who assisted the post surgeon as a pharmacist and in administering the hospital.

Larned, Kansas · United States