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Fort Davis National Historic SiteOfficers Row at Fort Davis National Historic Site.
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Fort Davis National Historic Site
Volunteer

INTERPRETATION & VISITOR SERVICES

  • Interpretation: Duties include helping at the Visitor Center desk and/or being a living history interpreter/docent wearing reproduction 19th-century attire provided by the park. Required reading is mandatory for all visitor service positions.
  • Library: Assisting with research projects, indexing microfilmed historical records, and cataloging books, photos, or maps.
  • Resource Management: Duties include hiking nature trails, litter removal, and looking for signs of safety hazards or vandalism.

ADMINISTRATION

  • Clerical assistance: Typing, filing, copying, collating, stamping/stuffing envelopes, performing computer-related tasks.

CULTURAL RESOURCES

  • Curatorial Assistants: Activities involve working with park museum collection and assisting the curator.
Photo of officer's row during winter.  

Did You Know?
For diversion the troops at Fort Davis had a library, a chapel, and a school, the latter usually presided over by the chaplain. But off-duty pastimes also included gambling, drinking, and sampling the pleasures of the village of Chihuahua just off the fort grounds.

Last Updated: August 31, 2006 at 15:27 EST