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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25F0_welcome-to-fort-vancouver_Vancouver-WA.html
The London-based Hudson's Bay Company established and extensive fur trading network throughout the Pacific Northwest, utilizing two dozen posts, six ships, and about 600 employees during peak seasons. Fort Vancouver was the administrative center a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25EZ_an-english-garden-in-the-wilderness_Vancouver-WA.html
Planting a garden was one of the first things the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) did when they established Fort Vancouver. At its height, in the mid-1840s, the garden had expanded to eight acres and provided not only produce but also large numbers of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QSK_the-vancouver-farm_Vancouver-WA.html
Fort Vancouver was the first large scale farming operation n the Pacific Northwest. Beginning in 1825, the Hudson's Bay Company established a number of farms and dairies in the area to reduce the high cost of importing food from England. Agricu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAQ_the-soviet-transpolar-flight-of-1937_Vancouver-WA.html
[Monument front]:Near this site at Pearson Airfield on June 20th, 1937, three Soviet aviators completed the first non-stop flight from the U.S.S.R. to the U.S.A. Command Pilot Valeri Chkalov, Co-Pilot Georgi Baidukov, and Navigator Alexander Be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAP_the-chkalov-transpolar-flight_Vancouver-WA.html
On June 20, 1937, the world's attention turned to Pearson Field when a Russian ANT-25 aircraft landed after making the first non-stop flight over the North Pole. The red and gray, single-engined aircraft "Stalin's Route" carried over 2,000 gall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF4B_congressional-medal-of-honor-monument_Vancouver-WA.html
This monument is presented to the city of Vancouver, Washington by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, in recognition of the spirit and sacrifice shown by the valiant Medal of Honor recipients now at rest in the Vancouver Barracks Cemetery. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OP_st-james-mission_Vancouver-WA.html
Many employees of Fort Vancouver were of French-Canadian descent, and had been raised as Roman Catholics. Separated by thousands of miles from their home parishe, these men pleaded with the Bishop of Quebec to send them priests. The Reverend Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OO_the-sutlers-store_Vancouver-WA.html
Until the late 19th century, the U. S. Army awarded sales commissions to civilian traders, known as sutlers. Each post or regiment was authorized to appoint one. Described as "a combination of saloon keeper and general store operator," the sutlers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5ON_howard-c-french-alexander-pearson_Vancouver-WA.html
[Top marker]:In loving memory ofHoward C. FrenchMajor Air Corps Reserve1894 - 1938Dedicated by his comrades of the 321st Observation SquadronUnited States Army Air Corps Reserve[Bottom marker]:In loving memory ofAlexander Pearson.Lieutenant Air Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OJ_the-marshall-house_Vancouver-WA.html
As part of a natural reorganization, the U.S. Army returned the headquarters of the Department of the Columbia from Portland, Oregon to Fort Vancouver in 1878. As a result, the Army funded construction of several new buildings on Officers Row, inc…
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