GC361CM Oregon History - Willamette Post (Traditional Cache) in Oregon, United States created by MMmm!!

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GeoCrater: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.

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A cache by MMmm!! Message this owner

Hidden : 10/15/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Nice drive in the country. Stop here for a smiley and history lesson. FTF gets choice of some awesome polished rocks.

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 know as Fort Kalapuya, served as a site or trading with the local Indians, the Kalapuyans. It was also a depot for hunting expeditions providing food to Fort George, also know as Fort Astoria, on the Oregon coast. The post was still intact in the lat 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.

Congratulations 'Youdad' on the FTF!!