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Cathlamet / k æ θ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / is a town located along the Ocean Beach Highway in Wahkiakum County, Washington, United States, where it is the county seat. The population was 560 at the 2020 census .
Lewis and Clark reported "that about 300 Cathlamet occupied nine plank houses on the south side of the Columbia River", [4] and lived between Tongue Point and Puget Island in Clatsop County, Oregon. [5] On the north side, they lived "from the mouth of Grays Bay to a little east of Oak Point." [3] Clark wrote: November 11th Monday 1805
Wahkiakum County, with Cathlamet as the county seat, was created by the First Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Washington in 1854. [ 5 ] : 126 Early settlers came from Great Britain and the eastern United States until around 1870, when they were followed by a large number of immigrants from Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Dalmatia .
Puget Island is a 7.5 sq mi(4,785 acre; 19.365 km 2) island and Census-designated place (CDP) in the Columbia River in Wahkiakum County, Washington, United States. The island was named for Peter Puget, a lieutenant in the Vancouver Expedition of exploration, which first mapped the island in 1792. [3]
It spans the Cathlamet Channel of the Columbia River. The Wahkiakum County Ferry connects Puget Island to Westport, Oregon. The bridge was named after former United States Congresswoman Julia Butler Hansen, who represented Washington from 1960 to 1974.
East Cathlamet is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wahkiakum County, Washington, on the eastern border of the town of Cathlamet. The population was 578 as of the 2020 census . The East Cathlamet community is part of the Wahkiakum School District , a K-12 school district of about 430 students.
Pioneer Church, also known as the Congregational Church, is a historic church in Cathlamet, Washington. It was built in 1895 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The building is currently used by the Pioneer Community Association.
Coat of arms of James Birnie. During his time with the NWC, Birnie was largely stationed at Fort George, the entrepôt and administrative center of the Columbia District on the shoreline of the Columbia River.