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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
t at the mouth of the Columbia River, which it calls Astoria......1811 D. McKenzie explores the Willamette River......1812 Convention between the United States and Great Britain for joint occupation of Oregon concluded in London, Oct. 20, 1818, ratified......Jan. 19, 1819 Convention between the United States and Russia regulating fishery and trading on the Pacific coast, and fixing 54° 40′ as the northern boundary claimed by the United States, concluded at St. Petersburg, April 5-7, 1824, and ratified......Jan. 12, 1825 Convention between the United States and Great Britain; the articles of 1819 are indefinitely extended, with proviso that either party might annul the agreement on twelve months notice......Aug. 6, 1827 Capt. Nathaniel J. Wyeth, of Wenham, Mass., establishes a fishery on Sauvies Island, at the mouth of the Willamette......1832 John McLeod and Michael la Framboise erect Fort Umpqua, a post for the Hudson Bay Company, on the Umpqua River......1832
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
h of the Columbia......August, 1811 Pierre Dorion and two others massacred by Indians on the Snake River......January, 1814 Fort Walla Walla, on the Columbia River, built by the Hudson Bay Company......1818 Exploring party under James McMillan leaves Astoria, Nov. 18, 1824; ascends the Chehalis River to Black River, thence to Tumwater Lake; thence by an Indian portage it descends the Eld Inlet to Puget Sound......December, 1824 Convention with Russia at St. Petersburg, April 5-7, 1824, regulating fishing and trading on the Pacific coast, and fixing 54° 40′ as the northern boundary of the United States, ratified......Jan. 12, 1825 Dr. John McLoughlin, of the Hudson Bay Company, moves headquarters from Astoria to Vancouver, which thus becomes first settlement in present State of Washington......1825 Fort Colville built by the Hudson Bay Company at Kettle Falls, on the Columbia......1825 Nathaniel J. Wyeth, with twenty-one men, starts from Boston overland for Orego