Willamette Post - Marion County, Oregon
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TheBeanTeam
N 45° 15.812 W 122° 56.566
10T E 504489 N 5012227
A trading post for the fur trade was established near here in 1813
Waymark Code: WM17VR
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2007
Views: 34
Oregon History
Willamette Post
Willamette Post was established in December 1813 on a knoll just east of this location by employees of the North West Company, A Montreal based fur-trading company. During the ensuing years the two-room log cabin, also known as Fort Kalapuya, served as a site for trading with the local Indians, The Kalapuyans. It was also a depot for hunting expeditions providing food to Fort George, also known as Fort Astoria, on the Oregon Coast. The post was still intact in the late 1820’s, as French-Indian families began to settle in the French Prairie Champoeg area. Pierre Bellique, a French Canadian fur trapper turned farmer, and his wife Genevieve, used the vacated building as a residence beginning in the early 1830’s.
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