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Contents: Counties in New York Albany – Allegany – Bronx – Broome – Cattaraugus – Cayuga – Chautauqua – Chemung – Chenango – Clinton – Columbia – Cortland – Delaware – Dutchess (Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck) – Erie – Essex – Franklin – Fulton – Genesee – Greene – Hamilton – Herkimer – Jefferson – Kings – Lewis – Livingston – Madison – Monroe ...
McDougall, Duncan (1999), Robert F. Jones (ed.), Annals of Astoria: The Headquarters Log of the Pacific Fur Company on the Columbia River, 1811-1813, New York City: Fordham University Press McLoughlin, John (1948), Barker, Burt Brown (ed.), Letters of Dr. John McLoughlin, written at Fort Vancouver 1829-1832 , Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort
For years the Hudson's Bay Company successfully maintained control of the Columbia River and American attempts to gain a foothold were fended off. In the 1830s, American religious missions were established at several locations in the lower Columbia River region. In the 1840s a mass migration of American settlers undermined British control.
Columbia County is in the southeast south-to-central part of New York State, southeast of Albany and immediately west of the Massachusetts border. The western border is the Hudson River . The landscapes of the county were among the scenes depicting by the Hudson River School , a mid-19th century art movement .
The Clermont State Historic Site, also known as the Clermont estate, the Clermont Manor or just Clermont, is a New York State Historic Site in southwestern Columbia County, New York, United States. It protects the former estate of the Livingston family, seven generations of whom lived on the site over more than two centuries.
Germantown is a town in Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 1,936 at the 2020 census, [1] [2] down slightly from 1,954 in 2010. [3] Germantown is located in the south-western part of the county along the east side of the Hudson River.
BP. $20 billion. In 2016, a federal judge in New Orleans approved a settlement forcing oil company BP to pay $20 billion in reparations for an offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, about six ...
The county is the northwest corner of Oregon, and Astoria is located on the south shore of the Columbia River, where the river flows into the Pacific Ocean. The city is named for John Jacob Astor , an investor and entrepreneur from New York City, whose American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur ...