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| [[Category:Oregon Forts]]
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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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| [[Image:FortClatsopBurning.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Fort Clatsop still burning 4 Oct 2005]]
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| [[Image:Fort-Clatsop-Inside.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Fort Clatsop Inside]]
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| [[Image:FortClatsopPlan.gif|200px|right|thumb|Fort Clatsop Plan from Clark's Journal]]
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| [[Image:FortClatsopBurning.jpg|left|300px|thumb|Fort Clatsop still burning 4 Oct 2005]]
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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 .
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| The Corps built the original fort between 7 Dec 1805 and 30 Dec 1805 according to a plan that Clark had drawn on the back of his elk skin covered journal. They named the fort after a neighboring tribe of friendly Indians. The party left Fort Clatsop on 23 Mar 1806 and began the journey back east.
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| The fort was reconstructed in 1955 on the original site and became Fort Clatsop National Memorial Park in 1958. In 1963 a visitor center was added and the park became a part of the Lewis & Clark National Historical Park in 2004.
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| On 3 Oct 2005 the replica of the fort was
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| [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1182890 destroyed by fire].
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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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