Journal entry · December 13, 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 13, 1805
John Ordway · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
of our huts and began the last line of our huts forming three
1 The site of Fori Clatsop, about to be built to house the party during the
winter, v;is on the first point of high land on the west side of Lewis and Clark
River, about three miles above its mouth. For an account of the site and its
present appearance see Wheeler, II. 101-98, and Oregon Historical Society,
Proceedings, 1900, 13-23.
1805] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 317
[sides of a] Square and 7 rooms 16 by 18 feet large, the other
Square we intend to picket and have gates at the 2 corners, so
as to have it a defensive fort.1 Cap4 Lewis bought Several kinds
of curious Skins from the natives as a curiousity, such as wild cat
and some other Small Skins which the Indians Call Shugolell
which they make Robes of. in the evening our 2 hunters re-
turned had killed 17 Elk.
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Fort Clatsop, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of December 10 to December 14, 1805
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Visitor Center (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 0.1 mi
- Fort Clatsop (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · National Register · 0.1 mi
- Columbia River Maritime Museum (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 4.7 mi
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