Jordan Leininger, an artifacts specialist with the Metropolis of Monterey’s Museum and Cultural Arts Division, holds up a replica uniform coat for a deliberate exhibit on Buffalo Troopers stationed on the Presidio of Monterey in 1902-1904.
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Buffalo Troopers stationed on the Presidio of Monterey within the early 1900s march in a parade in Pacific Grove, Calif.
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Buffalo Troopers stationed on the Presidio of Monterey within the early 1900s prepare with horses.
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The Presidio of Monterey Museum is within the Decrease Presidio Historic Park, off-post and adjoining to the Presidio of Monterey navy set up. It’s open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
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The Presidio of Monterey Museum is within the Decrease Presidio Historic Park, off-post and adjoining to the Presidio of Monterey navy set up. It’s open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
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For these with navy identification that enables them entry to the Presidio of Monterey, Buffalo Soldier Path, off Pvt. Bolio Street, results in an space close to the Buffalo Troopers’ former barracks in Buildings 450, 451, 452 and 453. Accomplished in 1903, they at the moment function Asian language school rooms.
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For these with navy identification that enables them entry to the Presidio of Monterey, the Presidio of Monterey Cemetery consists of the gravestones of three Buffalo Troopers. In 1904, Pvt. George Johnson, a Buffalo Soldier, turned the primary particular person buried within the cemetery. Petrum R. Frazier, a cook dinner who died Could 19, 1909, and Pvt. Thomas Polk, who died Sept. 13, 1911, additionally Buffalo Troopers, are buried within the cemetery.
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Jordan Leininger, an artifacts specialist with the Metropolis of Monterey’s Museum and Cultural Arts Division, places on gloves in his workplace in Monterey, Calif., July 21, earlier than dealing with a hat, gloves and coat buttons that he plans to incorporate in an exhibit on the Buffalo Troopers stationed on the Presidio of Monterey in 1902-1904.
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Jordan Leininger, an artifacts specialist with the Metropolis of Monterey’s Museum and Cultural Arts Division, factors to a map in his workplace in Monterey, Calif., July 21. The map, which he plans to incorporate in an exhibit on the Buffalo Troopers stationed on the Presidio of Monterey in 1902-1904, reveals the route the Troopers took on horseback to carry out work in Kings Canyon Nationwide Park.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. (July 25, 2022) – An artifacts specialist with the Metropolis of Monterey seeks extra data for a future museum exhibit concerning the Buffalo Troopers stationed on the Presidio of Monterey within the early 1900s.
“We wish to full the story,” mentioned Jordan Leininger, who works within the metropolis’s Museum and Cultural Arts Division. He encourages relations of ninth Cavalry Regiment Troopers stationed in Monterey in 1902-1904 to contact him utilizing data offered on the finish of this story.
Leininger is researching the Buffalo Troopers for an exhibit on the metropolis’s Presidio of Monterey Museum, which is within the Decrease Presidio Historic Park, off-post and adjoining to the Presidio of Monterey navy set up. Metropolis and set up officers created the museum by way of a partnership, and the town runs the museum.
The free museum reveals guests the navy historical past of Monterey from the indigenous peoples of the world to the modern-day PoM and Protection Language Institute International Language Heart, however apart from a small panel of data included in a historic stroll behind the museum, there’s nothing concerning the Buffalo Troopers, Leininger mentioned.
Museum officers wish to repair the omission and familiarize guests with the Buffalo Troopers and their place in Monterey’s historical past.
The historical past of the Buffalo Troopers begins after the Civil Warfare when, on July 28, Congress handed the Army Group Act of 1866 and created 4 all-Black items―the ninth and tenth Cavalry and twenty fourth and twenty fifth Infantry regiments. The Army despatched the items to the American western frontier, the place, many imagine, folks began calling them “Buffalo Troopers” as a result of their hair resembled the fur of buffalos and due to their ferociousness in battle.
Leininger mentioned the Buffalo Troopers are an necessary a part of American historical past, and their time in Monterey contributes to a higher understanding of that historical past.
“Once you consider the Civil Warfare and the Westward Growth, one of many massive issues that you consider when the US is shifting west is the Buffalo Troopers, how they got here out and who these males had been,” Leininger mentioned.
Leininger mentioned he started researching Monterey’s Buffalo Troopers in January 2020 and hopes to finish the exhibit by the top of the 12 months. The exhibit will embody a model sporting a uniform, pictures, a map and different gadgets.
Leininger can be within the means of finishing a virtually 20-page paper entitled “The Misplaced Historical past of the Buffalo Troopers on the Presidio of Monterey” that he’ll make out there to the general public when he finishes it.
Cameron Binkley, command historian for DLIFLC, mentioned the museum is an effective way to be taught concerning the historical past of the Army in Monterey, and it is a superb concept so as to add an exhibit about Monterey’s Buffalo Troopers.
The exhibit will use fascinating artifacts and pictures to assist museum guests see change over time, Binkley mentioned.
“Creating an exhibit about them routinely touches upon necessary subjects of range which can be nonetheless very related to at the moment’s service women and men and the general public as effectively,” Binkley mentioned.
Leininger mentioned there’s not quite a lot of data out there concerning the Buffalo Troopers in Monterey, however he was capable of set up a primary timeline because of DLIFLC historic archives and digitized newspapers on the Monterey Public Library and San Jose State College’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Library.
After the Philippine-American Warfare, Buffalo Troopers assigned to Corporations A, B, C and D, 1st Squadron, ninth Cavalry Regiment, landed San Francisco in 1902 and got here to the navy set up that’s now the Presidio of Monterey, Leininger mentioned.
The fifteenth Infantry Regiment was tenting at what’s now Soldier Area, and the Buffalo Troopers weren’t allowed to camp in the identical space because the fifteenth Inf. Regt., in order that they arrange camp in Pacific Grove in what’s now the Hopkins Marine Station space, Leininger mentioned.
They stayed within the camp from November 1902 till about December 1903 when the barracks had been prepared they usually moved in, Leininger mentioned. The barracks, in Buildings 450, 451, 452 and 453 on the Presidio, are at the moment Asian language school rooms.
Leininger mentioned he discovered from native newspapers that the Buffalo Troopers educated, improved their marksmanship and commenced breaking in new horses in the summertime of 1903. One photograph reveals them marching in a parade in Pacific Grove, a municipality subsequent to Monterey.
Additionally they served as early park rangers, and in 1904 the Army despatched them to Yosemite and Kings Canyon Nationwide Parks, the place they herded sheep, saved poachers out of the parks and helped develop the primary marked nationwide park path in the US, Leininger mentioned.
“They did that for that complete summer season and got here again and a few month later they had been shipped out,” Leininger mentioned.
Leininger mentioned he would really like extra element about why the Buffalo Troopers had been in Monterey, the place they went and what the Troopers and their households considered their time right here.
“I’m not asking folks to present us something,” Leininger mentioned. “I’d love at a minimal simply to get a have a look at this stuff simply to get a greater image, and be capable to scan them, take footage of them, so we will use it for this historical past and full it.”
Contact Leininger at leininger@monterey.org or (831) 646-5648. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. For extra data, go to https://monterey.org/city_facilities/museums/discover_museums/presidio_of_monterey_museum.php
