The river was first mapped and named by Almon Thompson, a member of the 1872 Colorado River expedition led by John Wesley Powell.

Thompson established the first white settlement in Idaho, MacKenzie's Post.

In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, David Thompson and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down the Columbia to Fort Astoria.

While a number of major international stars gained early prominence in Australia over the period, an important stable of established and emerging local stars with prodigious film credits remained prominent, including screen veterans Charles Tingwell, Bill Hunter, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown and Chris Haywood.

Nearly simultaneously, Mariana Medina established Namaqua along the Big Thompson River just west of present-day Loveland.

The ice business faded with the advent of refrigeration, but the Thompson Ice House, established in 1826, is now preserved as the Thompson Ice Harvesting Museum.

* Thompson established a tannery at Cummingsville in 1823

McCool post office was established September 11, 1883, with Charles W. Thompson as first postmaster.

( PTFD ) was established in 1954 and has 1 fire station to serve the community located in unincorporated Jackson County at 11010 Milton Thompson Road.

The first settlement in New Hampshire, originally named Pannaway, was established in 1623 at Odiorne's Point by a group of fishermen led by David Thompson.

One mile northeast of town is the North West Company fur trading post, established in 1797 by David Thompson, and in 1801 moved to a site one mile east of Walhalla, where a reconstructed building is now located.

Middlefield was established in 1799 by James Thompson and his father, Isaac Thompson, and incorporated in 1901.

When a post office was established here in 1886, the first postmaster, Mahala Thompson, wanted to name it Round Mountain.

In 1876, Lorenzo Thompson established Thompson's Stand, a general store situated at the junction of the Sulphur Springs coach road and Morganton Road.

The marque Facel Vega was created in 1954 by Jean Daninos ( brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson ), although the Facel company had been established by the Bonzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviations industry.

This reputation was largely established by the influence of Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Wentworth, Jon Thompson, Anton Ehrenzweig and Nick De Ville as teaching staff.

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford ( in ), FRS ( March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814 ) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

The Widden Stud in the Hunter Valley, NSW was established by John Thompson in 1867.

Its first award, established in 1796 by Benjamin Thompson ( Count Rumford ), honored distinguished work on " heat and light " and provided support for research activities.

Other leaders, including David Whitmer, James Collin Brewster, James Emmett, Gladden Bishop, William Smith, and Charles B. Thompson also established church organizations that had limited followings.

When Mark Thompson was appointed Director-General in June 2004, Byford's role was enlarged to take responsibility for all the BBC ’ s journalism at UK, international and local levels-the first time such a post leading the BBC's Journalism at all levels across radio, television and online, had been established.

Following an example set by American lumberman Henry W. Sage, Thompson Smith established a number of mills at Cheboygan, Michigan.

The original Zoology Museum established by D ' Arcy Thompson at Dundee became neglected after his move to St. Andrews and in 1956 the building it was housed in was scheduled for demolition and the museum collection was dispersed, with some parts going to the British Museum.

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.

In 1804, at the annual meeting of the North West Company in Kaministiquia, Thompson was made a full partner of the company and spent the next few seasons based there managing the fur trading operations but still finding time to expand his surveys of the waterways around Lake Superior.

Concern over the American-backed expedition of Lewis and Clark prompted the North West Company to charge Thompson with the task of finding a route to the Pacific in order to open up the lucrative trading territories of the Pacific Northwest.

Thompson was looking to establish fur trading posts for the Hudson's Bay Company of British North America ( now Canada ).

Thompson Falls was named after British explorer, geographer and fur trader David Thompson, who in 1809 founded Saleesh House, a North West Company fur trading post.

After establishing the Kullyspell House and Saleesh House trading posts in 1809 in the areas that later became Idaho and Montana respectively, Thompson wanted to expand further west.

Kloepfer made his mark on the team quickly, trading perennial All-Star, former Rookie of the Year and league MVP Colin Doyle to the San Jose Stealth along with Darren Halls and a draft pick for first overall draft pick Ryan Benesch, Kevin Fines, Chad Thompson and two draft picks.

Thompson attached a letter to the pole claiming the territory for the British Crown and stating that the North West Company intended to build a trading post at the site.

Thompson decided that the junction of the Snake River with the Columbia would be an excellent place for a trading post.

* David Thompson crosses Rockies and builds a trading post at headwaters of Columbia River.

In 1809 David Thompson of the North West Company explored the region and founded several fur trading posts, including Kullyspell House at the mouth of the Clark Fork, and Saleesh House on the river near the present-day site of Thompson Falls, Montana.

Similarly, British claims were established inland via the explorations of such men as Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, Samuel Black, David Thompson, and John Finlay, and by the subsequent establishment of fur trading posts by the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ).

Several early explorers including David Thompson traveled through the lake, it did not serve a major role in the fur trade as only a few short lived trading posts were established.

David Thompson established a North West Company trading post on the lake in 1809.

Spokane House was a fur trading post founded in 1810 by the British-Canadian North West Company under direction of David Thompson.

Soon after establishing Kullyspell House Thompson set up two other trading posts in the region, Saleesh House and Spokane House.

Saleesh House, also known as Flathead Post, was a North West Company fur trading post built near present-day Thompson Falls, Montana in 1809 by David Thompson and James McMillan of the North West Company.

Kootanae House, also spelled Kootenae House, was a North West Company fur trading post built by Jaco Finlay under the direction of David Thompson near present-day Invermere, British Columbia in 1807.