[permalink] [id link]
In 1837, it purchased Fort Hall, also along the route of the Oregon Trail, where the outpost director displayed the abandoned wagons of discouraged settlers to those seeking to move west along the trail.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
1837 and purchased
He purchased the school of at Newport, Isle of Wight, in December 1836, reopened it as a preparatory school on 20 February 1837, and moved it to Montpelier Road in Brighton in December 1837.
By 1840 the Hudson's Bay Company had three forts: Fort Hall ( purchased from Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth in 1837 ), Fort Boise and Fort Nez Perce on the western end of the Oregon Trail route as well as Fort Vancouver near its terminus in the Willamette Valley.
After Captain Benjamin Hopkins purchased land here in 1837 and built a mill, the place became known as " Hopkins Mill ".
William Bowen purchased the old Spring Villa Female Seminary building ( built on land purchased from the Bonapartes in 1837 ) and reopened it as the Bordentown Military Institute.
The first reference to Salubrity comes from the name of a farm purchased by Mr. Allen Fuller in 1837.
The property was purchased by William B. Carpenter in 1837, and his daughter and son-in-law Mary E. and George Mayfield inherited the house in 1869.
Hachaliah Bailey moved here from New York state and on December 19, 1837, he purchased a tract of land on the outskirts of Falls Church including what is now the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike.
After a year of mixed success with his first variety troupe called " Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater ," followed by the Panic of 1837 and three years of difficult circumstances, he purchased Scudder's American Museum, at Broadway and Ann Street, New York City, in 1841.
" ( Breasted 1930 ) The Papyrus was purchased in 1872 by the German Egyptologist and novelist Georg Ebers ( born in Berlin, 1837 ), after whom it is named.
Interestingly, in Lauder & Lauderdale it is stated that in 1837 " the new United Presbyterian manse was built on a site which was purchased, for £ 115, from Baillie Lauder.
In 1837 a French aristocrat with delusions of grandeur, Baron Charles de Thierry, sailed with 60 settlers into this hive of export activity to claim an immense tract of land that he believed he had purchased for 36 axes, 15 years earlier.
For example, in 1837, the federal government purchased former U. S. President James Madison's manuscripts from his widow, Dolley Madison, for $ 30, 000 ; if this is construed as covering copyright as well as the physical papers, it would be an example of such a transfer.
The name dates from 1837, when the Heath family purchased 40 acres ( 162, 000 m² ) of land on the northwest corner of Yonge and St. Clair ( then the Third Concession Road ) and named it Deer Park.
He returned to Europe in 1833, was created a knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order in 1837, was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army in 1838, and purchased the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of his regiment in 1839.
He moved to Quincy, Illinois in 1837, and, in 1844, purchased an $ 8, 000 farm, which he paid for by painting eight large religious canvases based on engravings of works by Benjamin West.
In 1837 it actually became a palace when it was purchased for the price of 170 000 roubles to be converted into a residence for the Governor-General of Finland.
1837 and Fort
In 1837, 157 Red River people with more than 200 cattle were living on the reservation at Fort Snelling.
In 1837, Fort Ann was established on the eastern shore of the Indian River on a narrow strip of land on Merritt Island.
* Wild Bill Hickok ( 1837 – 1876 ), noted Western lawman, who served as a Deputy U. S. Marshal at Fort Riley, Kansas in 1867 – 1869
" Major Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter wrote to Washington, D. C., that Beauregard, who had been his student at West Point in 1837, would guarantee that South Carolina's actions be exercised with " skill and sound judgment.
Lebec is named in honor of Peter Lebeck or Lebecque, who was killed by a bear nearby in 1837, and is memorialized in an epitaph at Old Fort Tejon, found carved on an old oak tree.
" Both Fort Defiance ( 1835 – 1836 ) and Fort Micanopy ( 1837 – 1843 ) were located here during the Second Seminole War.
On December 25, 1837, a force of 2, 000 U. S. Army soldiers and Alabama Volunteers arrived in the area to construct a fort, which they named Fort Christmas.
The modern-day area of Highland City was the site of the United State Army's Fort Fraser, established in 1837 during its war with the Seminole Indians.
Bonham, one of the oldest cities in Texas, dates back to 1837 when Bailey Inglish built a two-story block house named Fort Inglish.
In one instance in 1837, an American Fur Company steamboat, the St. Peter's, was headed to Fort Union and several passengers contracted smallpox on the way.
On October 21, 1837, on the orders of U. S. General Thomas Sidney Jesup, Osceola was captured when he arrived for supposed truce negotiations in Fort Peyton.
In 1837 a deadly epidemic of smallpox, originating in settlements at Fort Ross, caused numerous deaths of native people in the Sonoma and Napa regions.
* Fort Henry, Ontario ( 1837 ) in Kingston, Ontario, a limestone redoubt and connected fortified battery, built to protect the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal — now a popular tourist destination
Early American activity in the region included Fort William on present day Sauvie Island, the establishment of the Methodist Mission in the Willamette Valley and the Whitman Mission east of the Cascades, a saw mill in the Willamette Valley partly owned by Ewing Young, a grist mill also in the valley built in 1834, the Willamette Cattle Company organized in 1837 to bring over 600 head of cattle to the Willamette Valley, as well as ongoing Maritime Fur Trade vessels.
The present Fort Henry was constructed between 1832 and 1837 to protect the Lake Ontario end of the Rideau Canal.
In 1837, a smallpox epidemic decimated all the native populations of the Sonoma region, and the Coast Miwok population continued to decline rapidly from other diseases brought in from the Spaniards as well as the Russians at Fort Ross.
Unable to compete with the powerful British Hudson's Bay Company, based at Fort Vancouver, in 1837 Wyeth sold both posts to it.
0.455 seconds.