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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255K_site-of-astorias-first-electric-generating-station_Astoria-OR.html
On Christmas Eve, 1885, direct current flowed from a small dynamo in a planer shed of West Shore Lumber Mills to light Astoria's first electric lamps. Wires strung across housetops connected the dynamo to 30 arc lamps. Customers paid $16 a lamp pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255J_uniontown-curfew-bell_Astoria-OR.html
City Ordinance 1891 "No minor permitted on the streets after 8 P.M. in winter, 9 P.M. in summer. This bell has hung in several locations in West Astoria since 1904 and was rung for many years to remind people of the curfew. In later years, it was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255I_traveling-the-rivers_Astoria-OR.html
Camping on the Clearwater River in present-day Idaho, the Corps of Discovery made dugout canoes from pine logs. For expediency, Sergeant Patrick Gass noted: "we have adopted the Indian method of burning out the canoes." Axes and adzes were used to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255D_sacagawea_Astoria-OR.html
"The Wife of Shabone our interpreter We find reconciles all the Indians, as to our friendly intentions A woman with a party of men is a token of peace." - Clark, October 13, 1805
"...your woman who accompanied you that long and dangerous and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255C_fort-clatsop_Astoria-OR.html
Fort Clatsop built by Lewis and Clark in December 1805 for use as winter quarters was situated eight-tenths of a mile south of this point. The site was chosen because of the game in the surrounding country and because it was convenient to the coas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM255B_winter-at-fort-clatsop_Astoria-OR.html
Here, at the end of their westward journey, the 33 members of The Corps of Discovery spent four rainy months preparing for their return to St. Louis, Missouri. The men built huts to protect themselves and their supplies. They named it "Fort Clatso…