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Cathlamet
Historical Marker
Location
of sign - Located in front of the courthouse in Cathlamet,
Washington.
Photo
taken - June 2007
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Cathlamet
This site, long the home and hunting ground of the Indian was first
sighted by white man in 1792 when Lt Broughton was sent by
Capt
Vancouver to verify Gray's reported discovery of the Columbia, and
visited by Lewis and Clark in 1805 on their Northwest
Expedition.
Here the tribes of Cathlamet and Wahkiakum gathered, lived, and
passed on.
To this frontier in 1846 impelled by beauty of river and forest came
James Birnie, formerly of Hudson's Bay Company. Here he
built
his home and called it Birnie's Retreat. With the coming of
other settlers, he named this site Cathlamet.
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