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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AT_first-japanese-on-the-north-american-continent_Vancouver-WA.html
In October 1832, the Japanese cargo ship Hojun Maru set sail from near Nagoya bound for Edo (present day Tokyo). Disabled in a storm off Enshu Nada, the Hojun Maru drifted for fourteen months before running aground on the coast near Cape Flattery,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AS_ilchee_Vancouver-WA.html
In Recognition of the People Who Have Inhabited this Region for Thousands of Years.Ilchee Moon GirlHistory says she was born along the Columbia River about 1800, daughter of Chinook Chief Concomley and, later, wife of Chief Casinos leader in Vanco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AE_from-military-to-municipal-airfield_Vancouver-WA.html
The history of Pearson Field goes back almost to the origins of mechanized flight itself. The landing site of Lincoln Beachey's groundbreaking flight across the Columbia River from Portland to Vancouver, during the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition, m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AD_the-321st-observation-squadron-1923-1941_Vancouver-WA.html
Although the U.S. Army allowed civilian aircraft to land at Vancouver Barracks beginning in 1905, military aircraft began operating here in 1921, when the U.S. Army Air Service established a landing field for an aviation forest patrol. The patrol …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AC_the-first-fort-vancouver_Vancouver-WA.html
In 1824 the Hudson's Bay Company chose this place as the site for a new fort which they named Vancouver in honor of the British explorer, George Vancouver. Little is knowns of this fort as it was moved early in 1829 to its now well-known location …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5AA_theodore-a-penland-rose-garden_Vancouver-WA.html
This rose garden is dedicatedto the memory ofTheodore A. Penland1849 - 1950last Commander-in-Chief ofthe Grand Army of the Republic Plaque presented by The Daughters of Union Veterans and the Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the G.A.R. of Cla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5A9_fort-vancouver_Ridgefield-WA.html
Hudson's Bay Company established Fort Vancouver in 1824 within the area of present-day Vancouver, 83 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean. Forty Wooden buildings were enclosed within a 20-foot high log palisade until the treaty of 1846 set the in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM59W_the-reservation-monument_Vancouver-WA.html
[Side one of six]:Under the influence of Dr. John McLaughlin, Manager of the Hudson Bay Co., civilization of Washington started at Vancouver, A.D. 1825. [Side two of six]:The first school in Washington was taught by John Ball, at Vancouver, A.D…
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