Fort William (Oregon)
id:
fort-william-oregon-175-7684132
title:
Fort William (Oregon)
text:
Fort William was a fur trading outpost built in 1834 by the American Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, a Boston merchant, backed by American investors. It was located on the Columbia River on Wappatoo Island near the future Portland, Oregon. After a few years, in 1837 Wyeth sold the post to the British Hudson's Bay Company, which had much more power in the region from its base at Fort Vancouver on the north side of the Columbia River near Fort William. In 1835, the fort settlement was the site of a murder
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William_(Oregon)
date created:
2007-01-23T23:01:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T03:11:55Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q5472332","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5472332"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Ft_William_%28Ore%29_4125.jpg","width":3072,"height":4608}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15