Journal entry · November 26, 1805
Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia — John Ordway: November 26, 1805
John Ordway · Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
The place today: Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia
eairly went about one mile then crossed the River and went
down along the the South Shore passed Several Islands, halted at a
village of the Clatsop nation, they gave us pleanty to eat and
appeared verry friendly, we bought a fiew wapatoes roots, &C
the day rainy and cold, we went on passd Several low marshy
Islands which was covred with course grass, and willows the
Shore is high land covred thick with pine timber and under
brush, we Campd in a thick part of wood.
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The NPS atlas for this night
south shore of Columbia near Svenson, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino)
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Tongue Point (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 4.8 mi
From the NPS Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas, mirrored here on September 21, 2026. This copy is not authoritative; NPS remains the system of record. About the mirror
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