Journal entry · November 29, 1805
Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia — John Ordway: November 29, 1805
John Ordway · Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia · Thwaites Vol. Quaife 1916
That night's camp, per the NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino): Tongue Point Neck, OR
the Small canoe in order to go down the River to look out a place
for winter quarters. Showery and Some hail in the course of
the day.
1 Opposite Pillar Rock, and near the site of the encampment of November 7.
2 The camp, where the party was to remain until December 7, was “on
the neck of Land Which joins Point William to the main.” Clark. Point
William, so named in Clark’s honor, was modern Tongue Point. Wheeler
says the camp was on the south side of the Point, while Thwaites has it “facing
the site of Astoria, near the spot where the government now has a hydrographic
station.” Since the neck of land, connecting the Point with the mainland,
was only fifty yards wide the two descriptions do not involve much actual
difference as to the site of the camp.
3 “O! how disagreeable is our Situation durcing this dreadfull weather.”
Clark.
1805] SERGEANT ORDWAY’S JOURNAL 315
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The NPS atlas for this night
Tongue Point Neck, OR
NPS campsite reconstruction (Bergantino) · Camp of November 29 to November 30, 1805
NPS sites within 5 miles of this camp
- Tongue Point (opens in a new tab) NPS High Potential Historic Site · 0.7 mi
- Columbia River Maritime Museum (opens in a new tab) Visitor center/museum · 2.9 mi
Source: National Park Service, Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Atlas.
Terrain360 · the place today
Exploring for winter camp site, south shore of Columbia in 360°
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