Category:Fort Nisqually
Fort Nisqually (1833-1869) - Established in 1833 by Dr. William F. Tolmie for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), it was the first European settlement on Puget Sound.
Fort Nisqually was the principal port for domestic and foreign trade on Pugent Sound. It was operated and served by Scottish gentlemen, Native Americans, Kanakas (Hawaiians), French-Canadians, West Indians, Englishmen and American settlers. Fort Nisqually grew from a remote outpost to a major international trading establishment. Indians were welcomed at Fort Nisqually as friends, customers, fur traders, farm and livestock employees, and even as spouses!
Fort Nisqually never had a military purpose, but the palisade does resemble some frontier army stockades. It was only occasionally visited by American and British military personnel during its active years. The 1846 treaty between the United States and Great Britain established the boundary between the two country's claims at the 49th parallel. This treaty left Fort Nisqually on American soil. With fur trade profits declining, increasing competition from American settlers, and mounting harassment from American revenue agents and tax collectors, Fort Nisqually was closed in 1869. The United States government, under the 1846 treaty agreement, paid the HBC $650,000 for Fort Nisqually and the Puget Sound Agriculture Company lands.
Location: The original site was on the beach but was moved to the plains above the Nisqually River delta near the main entrance toin the present town of DuPont, Washington. In 1934 the ruins were moved to Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington and restoration was begun.
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Lat: 47.3033 Long: -122.5323
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