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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 ...
John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, (October 19, 1784 – September 3, 1857) was a French-Canadian, later American, Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver from 1824 to 1845.
In the 1860s, Fort Hall was the key post for the overland stage, mail and freight lines to the towns and camps of the mining frontier in the Pacific Northwest. In 1870, a New Fort Hall was constructed to carry out that function; it was located about 25 miles to the northeast. It protected stagecoach, mail and travelers to the Northwest.
Arriving in May 1837 at Fort Vancouver on the ship Diana [12] was a party of seven adults and four children under the leadership of Dr. Elijah White. [13] Included in the party was White's wife, William H. Willson , Anna Maria Pittman , Alanson Beers , Susan Downing, and Elvira Johnson. [ 13 ]
In the mid-1840s, American settlers began to arrive at Fort Vancouver, coming in on the Oregon Trail. Due to the flood of white immigrants, John McLoughlin found himself in a tight spot. [4] Travelling Americans often carried measles and other foreign diseases to which the Cayuse had no natural immunity. Cayuse children died of diseases such as ...
Fort Dalles, Oregon, 1850–1867; Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory 1853–1879; Fort Bellingham, Washington Territory (1855–1860) Fort Cascades, Washington Territory (1855–1861) Fort Yamhill, Oregon (1856–1866) Fort Townsend, Washington Territory (1856–1861) Fort Walla Walla, Washington Territory 1856–1911; Fort Hoskins, Oregon ...
On July 27, 1865 the Military Division of the Pacific was created under Major General Henry W. Halleck, replacing the Department of the Pacific, consisting of the Department of the Columbia (replacing the District of Oregon) that now consisted of the state of Oregon and the territories of Washington and Idaho and the expanded Department of California.