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Day in the Life

Aug 13, 1850

Journal Entry

August 13, 1850 ~ Tuesday

13th I visited Chimney Rock in company with others Br Branch
measured the base of the foundation or mound upon which the
main shaft or pillar stands found it to be about 600 yards in
Circumference, 100 feet high from the base the pillar is 50
by 25 feet in diameter & holds nearly that proportion about
125 feet high making about 225 feet high from the base, the
whole column appears more of a hard clay formation than
rock except a few veins runing through it of white stone
we travled around it & clumn the pillar as far as possible
Mrs Woodruff myself & many others engraved our names

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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
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Chimney Rock, Nebraska Territory

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Aug 13, 1850