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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25F0_welcome-to-fort-vancouver_Vancouver-WA.html
The London-based Hudson's Bay Company established and extensive fur trading network throughout the Pacific Northwest, utilizing two dozen posts, six ships, and about 600 employees during peak seasons. Fort Vancouver was the administrative center a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25EZ_an-english-garden-in-the-wilderness_Vancouver-WA.html
Planting a garden was one of the first things the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) did when they established Fort Vancouver. At its height, in the mid-1840s, the garden had expanded to eight acres and provided not only produce but also large numbers of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QSK_the-vancouver-farm_Vancouver-WA.html
Fort Vancouver was the first large scale farming operation n the Pacific Northwest. Beginning in 1825, the Hudson's Bay Company established a number of farms and dairies in the area to reduce the high cost of importing food from England. Agricu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17MR_esther-short_Vancouver-WA.html
After marrying Amos Short in 1829, Esther (Clark) Short set out on the adventure of her life! Originally from Tioga County, Pennsylvania, Esther Short, who was ½ Algonquin Indian, her husband Amos and 10 children traveled west to Linton, Oreg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1398_fishers_Vancouver-WA.html
For centuries Indians used the trail that later became old Evergreen Highway. Where each creek entered the Columbia River the Indians made camp. In 1805 Lewis & Clark and their expedition camped on Government Island, a haven for waterfowl. The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAQ_the-soviet-transpolar-flight-of-1937_Vancouver-WA.html
[Monument front]:Near this site at Pearson Airfield on June 20th, 1937, three Soviet aviators completed the first non-stop flight from the U.S.S.R. to the U.S.A. Command Pilot Valeri Chkalov, Co-Pilot Georgi Baidukov, and Navigator Alexander Be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAP_the-chkalov-transpolar-flight_Vancouver-WA.html
On June 20, 1937, the world's attention turned to Pearson Field when a Russian ANT-25 aircraft landed after making the first non-stop flight over the North Pole. The red and gray, single-engined aircraft "Stalin's Route" carried over 2,000 gall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4B_congressional-medal-of-honor-monument_Vancouver-WA.html
This monument is presented to the city of Vancouver, Washington by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, in recognition of the spirit and sacrifice shown by the valiant Medal of Honor recipients now at rest in the Vancouver Barracks Cemetery. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7XY_a-river-of-settlers_Vancouver-WA.html
Before 1846 American immigrants traveling the Oregon Trail to Fort Vancouver had to make a choice at The Dalles (80 miles upriver from here). They could navigate their own handmade raft or take a Hudson's Bay Company boat down the Columbia River t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7XW_heart-of-a-trading-empire_Vancouver-WA.html
Look around you. The scenic spot where you now stand was once the heart of one of the busiest shipping ports west of the Rocky Mountains. From 1825 to 1846, Fort Vancouver's waterfront served as the western economic artery of the Hudson's Bay Comp…
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