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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM256O_cannon-beach_Cannon-Beach-OR.html
Named after the cannon washed ashore on this beach from the U.S.S. Sloop of War 'Shark' which was wrecked while attempting to leave the Columbia River Sep't. 10, 1846.
This replica erected by the Cannon Beach Commercial Club Dec. 15, 1952.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM256N_ecola_Cannon-Beach-OR.html
On January 8, 1806 William Clark and perhaps fourteen of the famous expedition reached a Tillamook village of five cabins on a creek which Captain Clark named Ecola or Whale Creek. Three days earlier, two men sent out from Fort Clatsop to locate a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM256M_the-lewis-and-clark-expedition_Astoria-OR.html
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery" to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM256L_the-columbias-estuary_Astoria-OR.html
The Corps of Discovery entered the marshes and sloughs of the Columbia's estuary in early November of 1805, but violent weather pinned them down along the river's banks for days. While camped across the river William Clark lamented, O! how horribl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM256K_captain-john-west-and-westport-oregon_Clatskanie-OR.html
"Captain" John West was a self-made man. A native of Scotland, he settled on the lower Columbia River near this spot in the early 1850s after trying his luck in the goldfields of California. West built and operated sawmills, ran a general store an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM256J_the-wreck-of-the-peter-iredale_Warrenton-OR.html
On October 25, 1906, with an empty cargo hold and only 28 days out of Salina Cruz Mexico, the Peter Iredale ran aground. Bound for Portland and a new load of cargo, Captain H. Lawrence offered his crew a bonus if they cut five days off the normal …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255T_fort-astoria_Astoria-OR.html
Desiring to dominate the areas explored by Lewis and Clark, John Jacob Astor sent expeditions overland and by sea to seize the mouth of the Columbia. The schooner Tonquin arrived first and work was begun on this site April 12, 1811. "The foliage w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255O_site-of-original-settlement-of-astoria_Astoria-OR.html
Erection of a fort was begun
April 12, 1811
by the thirty-three members of the Astor party who sailed around Cape Horn in the ship Tonquin and established here the famous fur trading post which was the first American settlement west of the Ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255M_ranald-macdonald_Astoria-OR.html
Birthplace of
Ranald MacDonald
First Teacher of English in Japan
The son of the Hudson's Bay Co. manager of Fort George and Chinook Indian Chief Comcomly's daughter, MacDonald theorized that a racial link existed between Indians and Japane…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255L_the-butterfly-fleet_Astoria-OR.html
Before engines - they fished in boats powered by the wind in their sails & were called the Butterfly Fleet. They were at the mercy of the wind & tides & as such it was a very dangerous profession. They did not always come back - these predominantl…