At the same time Russians colonized Alaska and even founded settlements in California, like Fort Ross.

The ROC should not be confused with the Orthodox Church in America ( OCA ), a self-governing part of the Russian Orthodox Church that traces its existence in North America from the time of the Russian Orthodox missionaries in Alaska in the late 18th century and the Russian settlement at Fort Ross on the Pacific coast in California in the early 19th century.

Other historic sites include homes for Edgar Allan Poe, Betsy Ross, and Thaddeus Kosciuszko, early government buildings like the First and Second Banks of the United States, Fort Mifflin, and the Gloria Dei ( Old Swedes ') Church.

A year later, the RAC began expanding its operations to more abundant sea otter grounds in Northern California, where Fort Ross was built in 1812.

The outpost of Fort Ross was established in 1812 near Bodega Bay in Northern California.

By 1818, Fort Ross ' population was 128, consisting of 26 Russians and 102 Native Americans.

Fort Ross is now a Federal National Historical Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.

It is preserved — restored in California's Fort Ross State Historic Park 50 miles north of San Francisco.

The Mission San Francisco de Solano ( Sonoma Mission-1823 ) specifically responded to the Fort Ross presence by the Russians.

Russian colonization of the Americas reached its southernmost point with the 1812 establishment of Fort Ross ( krepost ' rus ), an agricultural, scientific, and fur-trading settlement located in present-day Sonoma County, California.

He was tasked with monitoring the activities of Russia at their nearby settlement of Fort Ross ( krepost ' rus < nowiki >'</ nowiki >), and with establishing peaceful relations with the Native Americans of the region.

In August 1812, the Russian-American Company set up a fortified trading post at Fort Ross, near present day Bodega Bay on the Sonoma Coast of Northern California, sixty miles north of San Francisco on land claimed, but not occupied by, the British Empire.

It returns underwater through the linear trough of Tomales Bay which separates the Point Reyes Peninsula from the mainland, runs just east of the Bodega Heads through Bodega Bay and back underwater, returning onshore at Fort Ross.

From Fort Ross the northern segment continues overland, forming in part a linear valley through which the Gualala River flows.

In 1814 Alexander Ross, a fur trader with the North West Company, seeking a viable route across the mountains, explored and crossed the northern Cascades between Fort Okanogan and Puget Sound.

By the late 18th century and into the mid-19th century, Russian settlers had established several posts and communities on the northeast Pacific coast, eventually reaching as far south as Fort Ross, California.

Qadanalchen had worked at the Russian American colony of Fort Ross in California from about 1812 to about 1821.

Research on Fort Ross has indicated that several farms were developed inland from the coastal fur trading fort in northwestern Sonoma County.

Under Vallejo's supervision, the Presidio of Sonoma, or Sonoma Barracks ( part of Spain's Fourth Military District ), was built beside the mission for the army, and he pursued control and order in the region over the native tribes and kept a military eye on the Russians of Fort Ross.

The way of life of the Pomo changed with the arrival of Russians at Fort Ross ( 1812 to 1841 ) on the Pacific coastline, and Spanish missionaries and European-American colonists coming in from the south and east.

The Pomo native to the coastline and Fort Ross were known as the Kashaya.

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.

* Erússi ( Fort Ross ).

The Ross, Skye and Lochaber area consists of six out of the 22 wards of the council area and the Lochaber area consists of two wards, the Caol and Mallaig ward, which elects three councillors, and the Fort William and Ardnamurchan ward, which elects four councillors.

Vallejo began construction of the Presidio of Sonoma to counter the Russian presence at Fort Ross.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

Thompson spent the next few seasons trading based in Fort George ( now in Alberta ), and during this time led several expeditions into the Rocky Mountains.

Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, the HBC controlled nearly all trading operations in the Pacific Northwest, based out of the company headquarters at Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River.

His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.

* 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit, Michigan.

The United States adapted the former Spanish facility at Fort Bellefontaine as a fur trading post near St. Louis in 1804 for business with the Sauk and Fox.

In 1808 two military forts with trading factories were built, Fort Osage along the Missouri River in western present-day Missouri and Fort Madison along the Upper Mississippi River in eastern present-day Iowa.

A series of trading posts was established by both the British and French, such as Fort Oswego in 1722 and Fort Rouillé ( Toronto ) in 1750.

He built Fort Orleans in 1723 as a trading post near present-day Brunswick, Missouri.

It also showed the first year-round trading presence in New Netherland, Fort Nassau, which would be replaced in 1624 by Fort Orange, which eventually grew into the town of Beverwyck, now Albany.

In Senegal, trading posts were established in Gorée, St. Louis, Rufisque, Portudal and Joal and the upper valley of the Senegal River, including Fort St. Joseph Galam was in the 18th century a French engine of trafficking in Senegambia.

** Fort Vancouver, 19th-century fur trading post, located in present-day Vancouver, Washington

* 1824 – The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.

* The Fort Vancouver trading post is established on the lower Columbia River by the Hudson's Bay Company.

* The Hudson's Bay Company trading post Fort Edmonton is constructed ; the city of Edmonton, Alberta, eventually grows from it.

Fur trade | Fur trading at Fort Nez Percés in 1841.

This established a ' quick ' ( about 100 days for ) one way to resupply their forts and fur trading centers as well as collecting the furs the posts had bought and transmitting messages between Fort Vancouver and York Factory on Hudson Bay. HBC's York Factory Express trade route, 1820s to 1840s.

Fort Laramie was a former fur trading outpost originally named Fort John that was purchased in 1848 by the U. S. Army to protect travelers on the trails.

Fort Hall was an old fur trading post located on the Snake River.

Area settled by the Dutch in 1660After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615: Fort Nassau, on Castle Island in the Hudson, near present-day Albany.