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| [[Category:Oregon Forts]]
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| [[Category:Restored]]
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| [[Category:National Park]]
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| [[Image:Fort_Clatsop.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Fort Clatsop]]
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| [[Image:Fort-Clatsop-Gate.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Fort Clatsop Gate]]
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| '''Fort Clatsop (1805-1806)''' - This fort was the first military establishment to be built in Oregon. It served [[Meriwether Lewis|Lewis]] and [[William Clark|Clark]] and the 33-member Corps of Discovery as winter quarters in 1805-06 as seven cabins surrounded by a 50 ft square stockade . The party left the fort on 23 Mar 1806.
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| The fort was reconstructed in 1955 on the original site and is now Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park soon to be integrated into the Lewis & Clark National Historical Park.
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| [[Image:Fort-Clatsop-Inside.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Fort Clatsop Inside]]
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| [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1182890 Fort Clatsop Fire 4 Oct 2005]
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| '''Location:''' Located three-fourths of a mile south of the Oregon Coast Highway, just west of the Lewis and Clark River in Clatsop County, Oregon.
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| {{Mapit-US-cityscale|46.13389|-123.87611}}
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| '''Source:''' [[Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads]]
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| '''Links:'''
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| *[http://www.nationalparks.org/Planyourparktrip/ParkProfile.asp?partnerid=1132&Section=4 Fort Catsop National Memorial Park]
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| * [http://us.rd.yahoo.com/maps/extmap;_ylt=Aj8GXB.UGgcHtug2G8vB.jpkDLMF/*-http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?name=&ed=Ml8uEOp_0TpuoV7Xh0b8Wz0eDs3HAH252Ub2gqikudbfQuKnK4nh5bpwJ9nPWTCWycofMvqftX1i1_pvMYl41NB5mC4deRtRKkNl7FzG&csz=Oregon&desc=&mag=1&ds=g&state=OR&uzip=&country=US&BFKey=&cat=fin&resize=l&trf=0 Yahoo Map]
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