Mackenzie's Post
Early in September 1812, Donald Mackenzie set up a fur trade post near
here for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company.
Disappointed to find that beaver were unavailable in this area, he built
only a store and two houses out of driftwood. Then the War of 1812 and
Indian trouble tangled his plans; in May 1813 he abandoned this site,
since Astor's venture had failed and was about to be sold to the North West
Company of Montreal. "Perpetual Motion" Mackenzie, who once had been a
Nor'Wester, rejoined the Canadians in 1816 and finally organized the Snake
country fur trade. ~ text of marker