Journal entry · December 18, 1805
Building and occupying Fort Clatsop — John Ordway: December 18, 1805
John Ordway · Building and occupying Fort Clatsop · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
sent3 with 2 canoes across the bay after Some plank, they
returned towards evening with the canoes loaded with plank
which they took from Some old fishing Camps, a little hail
and frozen rain & cold.
1 Two diagrams of the fort, drawn by Clark, are reproduced by Thwaites
(III, 268, 298). Neither of them agrees with Ordway’s description.
2 “The winds violent Trees falling in every derection, whorl winds, with
gusts of rain Hail & Thunder, this kind of weather lasted all day, Certainly
one of the worst days that ever was!” Clark.
3 Clark records this trip as occurring December 19. In similar fashion- the
visit from the savages noted by Ordway December 19 is given by Clark as of
December 20.
318 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS [Dec. 19
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Fort Clatsop, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of December 16 to December 31, 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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