Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff...

American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site and established a monopoly in the fur trade in the early 19th century. Astoria was incorporated by the...

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was constructed at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811, Fort Astoria (present-day Astoria, Oregon). The destruction of the company vessel the Tonquin...

of 1812, Fort Astoria was captured by the British and sold to the North West Company. Under British control, Fort Astoria was renamed Fort George. In...

the river in March 1811, the Tonquin crew began building what became Fort Astoria. The ship left supplies and men to continue work on the station and ventured...

on the establishment of Fort Astoria (the coastal fur trade post of Astor's Pacific Fur Company) and described Fort Astoria as "the germ of a great,...

various times Fort George, Oregon, the new name for Fort Astoria after the North West Company purchased it from the Pacific Fur Company in 1813 Fort George,...

emerging fur district. The American Pacific Fur Company (PFC) founded Fort Astoria near the entrance of the Columbia River and began to counter the interior...

European-American party to cross South Pass during an overland expedition from Fort Astoria to Saint Louis in 1811. He was a member of the North West Company (NWC)...

Fort George Brewery is a craft brewery in the northwest United States located in Astoria, Oregon. The brewery produces about 34,000 beer barrels annually...

(PFC) vessel the Tonquin entered the Columbia River and established Fort Astoria. Founded by German-American merchant John Jacob Astor, the PFC was intended...

Jacob's fur trading company established a Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria in 1811, the first United States community on the Pacific coast. He financed...

include: Fort Saint-James (1806; oldest in British Columbia west of the Rockies), Fort Astoria (1811; oldest in Oregon), Fort Nez Percés (1818), Fort Alexandria...

following month and in honor of George III of the United Kingdom, Fort Astoria was renamed to Fort George. In negotiations with American Albert Gallatin throughout...

the mouth of the river, where they built Fort Astoria on the south side of the river, in present-day Astoria. On 5 June, the ship crossed the bar and...

tribe, straddles Oregon's southern border with Nevada: Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes: near McDermitt...

Fort Astoria. On 30 November HMS Racoon arrived at the Columbia River and in honor of George III of the United Kingdom, Fort Astoria was renamed Fort...

as Fort George by the North West Company, continued to operate until the Hudson's Bay Company's takeover and the replacement of Fort Astoria by Fort Vancouver...

Astoria is a neighborhood in the western portion of the New York City borough of Queens. Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to four other...

Company to join Wilson Price Hunt and a group on an overland expedition to Fort Astoria. Also present were their two young boys, approximately two and four years...

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areas and Columbia River region. His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria (established in April 1811) was the first United States community on...

Also in 1811, New Yorker John Jacob Astor financed the establishment of Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River as a western outpost to his Pacific...

at Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. But due to the War of 1812 the PFC had been forced to sell all its assets in 1813, including Fort Astoria...

Fort Astoria sold to the North West Company. In 1821 the North West Company was absorbed by the giant London-based Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Fort Vancouver...

for the North West Company and the Pacific Fur Company. He co-founded Fort Astoria near the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific coast. MacKay was...

between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate. MacDonald was born at Fort Astoria, in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The area was then known as...

Pacific Fur companies throughout his varied career. In the official Fort Astoria logbook maintained by station manager Duncan McDougall, Stuart was recorded...

expedition led by Wilson Price Hunt. The party expanded west from Missouri to Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1811–12. He is best known, along...