Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Location: Vancouver, Washington and Oregon City, Oregon, USA: Nearest city: Vancouver, Washington, and Oregon City, Oregon: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 207 acres (84 ha) [2]: Established: June 19, 1948 (national monument) June 30, 1961 (national historic site): Visitors: 710,439 (in 2011) [3]: Governing body: National Park Service: Website: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site: Fort Vancouver ...
Fort Vancouver was declared a US National Monument on June 19, 1948, and redesignated as Fort Vancouver National Historic Site on June 30, 1961. This was taken a step further in 1996 when a 366-acre (1.48 km 2 ) area around the fort, including Kanaka Village, the Columbia Barracks and the bank of the river, was established as the Vancouver ...
April 7, 1998 (310 West 11th Street: Vancouver: 7: Clark County Courthouse: Clark County Courthouse: April 11, 2014 (1200 Franklin Street: Vancouver: 8: Clark County Poor Farm – Southwestern Washington Experiment Station
The Pearson Air Museum is a place-based aviation museum at Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington, USA. Managed by the National Park Service as part of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, museum exhibits provide an opportunity for visitors to explore aviation history tied to Pearson Field and Vancouver Barracks. Objects and artifacts ...
The Vancouver Barracks was the first United States Army base located in the Pacific Northwest, established in 1849, in what is now contemporary Vancouver, Washington. [2] It was built on a rise 20 feet (6.1 m) above the Fort Vancouver fur trading station established by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).
Officers Row at Fort McIntosh, Laredo, Texas; Officers Row at Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester and Essex, Vermont; Officers' Row Historic District, Bremerton, Washington; Officers' Row at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington; Officers Row, Fort Vancouver Barracks, Vancouver, Washington; Officers' row at Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park ...
In the 1970s a grassroots campaign to refurbish the dilapidated properties began to appear, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1] In 1980, the U.S. Army declared it a surplus, and it was henceforth deeded to the city for one dollar.
Fort Columbia State Park preserves Fort Columbia, a coastal artillery post along the north side of the Columbia river outlet. At 593 acres (240 ha), the park includes an interpretive center focused on the fort and regional history. Chinook Point, the site from which an American captain, Robert Gray, first saw the Columbia River, is part of the ...