WELCOME TO FORT VANCOUVER NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE

Fort Vancouver, built in 1825 on the Columbia River, near the mouth of the Williamette, as the Pacific headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company.  It was in operation through 1860.

 

Surrounded by a stockade 318 feet square, the fort consisted of warehouses, stores, offices, dormitories, a brick powder magazine, and a dock for ocean - going ships. 

Fort Vancouver has been reconstructed on the original site; tour 9 reconstructed buildings.  Re-enact the past with costumed interpreters at the fur warehouse, carpenter shop, dispensary, Chief Factor's house, kitchen, bake house, blacksmith and Indian trade shops.