Fort Vancouver

Posted by on Oct 7, 2012 in Blog, Featured | 0 comments

Fort Vancouver

Fort Vancouver dates from the 1820s as a fur trading post, and soon became the most important community in the Pacific Northwest.  Headquarters of the Hudson’s Bay Company and later the Vancouver Barracks of the U.S. Army, it is now a National Historic Site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Parks:

http://www.nps.gov/fova/index.htm

History of the Fort to 1860:

http://www.nwcouncil.org/history/fortvancouver.asp