The story
Two truths share this spot: a jail for misbehaving soldiers, and a prison for Indigenous families who defended their homelands. A stop that asks you not to look away.
You are looking toward the site of the Guardhouse, and this stop asks you to hold two truths at once. It was built to lock up soldiers who broke the rules. But it also imprisoned Indigenous men, women, and children who resisted the violent taking of their homelands by the United States during the Indian Wars. The Park Service asks us not to walk past that. When you are ready, return north to the sidewalk and face the row of homes on the north side of East Evergreen Boulevard.