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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (1811-1812) - A [[North West Company]] (NWC) trading post established along the Kootenai River in 1811 | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (1811-1812) - A [[North West Company]] (NWC) trading post established along the Kootenai River in 1811 across the river from present day Jennings, Lincoln County, Montana. Abandoned in 1812. Also known as [[Fort Kootenae]] and with various spellings of the river name (Kooyenay, Kootenai, Kootenae) | ||
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== History == | == History == | ||
Established by the [[North West Company]] (NWC) in the winter of 1811-1812 along the Kootenai River | Established by the [[North West Company]] (NWC) in the winter of 1811-1812 along the Kootenai River across from present day Jennings in Lincoln County, Montana. | ||
Abandoned in 1812. | Abandoned in 1812. | ||
== Current Status == | == Current Status == | ||
The site is reportedly on private property in the Big Bend of the Kootenay River and is not marked with roadside markers or obvious access points. The site was identified by Jacob Meyers in October 1915. Meyers found four chimney bottoms and three cellar depressions and placed a stone marker at the site. This stone marker was displaced by later road construction and now resides in the Libby Heritage Museum in Libby, Montana. According to the Heritage Museum the site (but not the marker) was "relocated" at the Big Bend in 2007. The marker and the tale associated with it are shown here. | |||
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'''Location:''' | '''Location:''' At the "Big Bend" of the Kootenay River across from the town of Jennings in Lincoln County, Montana. {{GNISMapPoint}} | ||
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'''Links:''' | '''Links:''' | ||
* [http://www.northamericanforts.com/West/mt3.html#koot2 North American Forts - Kootenai Post (2)] | * [http://www.northamericanforts.com/West/mt3.html#koot2 North American Forts - Kootenai Post (2)] | ||
* [http://www.libbyheritagemuseum.org Libby Heritage Museum] | |||
{{Visited|Area 7 Jun 2017}} | {{Visited|Area 7 Jun 2017}} | ||
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Kootenai Post (2) (1811-1812) - A North West Company (NWC) trading post established along the Kootenai River in 1811 across the river from present day Jennings, Lincoln County, Montana. Abandoned in 1812. Also known as Fort Kootenae and with various spellings of the river name (Kooyenay, Kootenai, Kootenae)
HistoryEstablished by the North West Company (NWC) in the winter of 1811-1812 along the Kootenai River across from present day Jennings in Lincoln County, Montana. Abandoned in 1812. Current StatusThe site is reportedly on private property in the Big Bend of the Kootenay River and is not marked with roadside markers or obvious access points. The site was identified by Jacob Meyers in October 1915. Meyers found four chimney bottoms and three cellar depressions and placed a stone marker at the site. This stone marker was displaced by later road construction and now resides in the Libby Heritage Museum in Libby, Montana. According to the Heritage Museum the site (but not the marker) was "relocated" at the Big Bend in 2007. The marker and the tale associated with it are shown here.
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