Journal entry · January 3, 1806
Fort Clatsop, salt works established — John Ordway: January 3, 1806
John Ordway · Fort Clatsop, salt works established · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Fort Clatsop, winter quarters
part of last night one of the hunters caught a large otter. Serg*
Gass went over to the Salt Camps, about 10 oClock a number of
the natives came to the fort, in the evening three of our hunters
came to the Fort had killed nothing but one Deer one Swan and
4 ducks, also a raven which they eat on new years day to Satisfy
their hunger.1
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Fort Clatsop, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of January 1 to January 5, 1806
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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