This area, once named tchampuick, the 'place of yampah' was the traditional homeland of the Tualatin Kalapuya tribe. Fur trappers first arrived here by canoe in 1811, and they found lush open prairies bordering the Willamette River. In 1830, . . . — — Map (db m114307) HM
In memory of Oregon's first Catholic missionary and Archbishop The Most Reverend F. N. Blanchet dedicated to the place of the first holy sacrifice of the mass offered up in Oregon, January 6, 1839 — — Map (db m259461) HM
Willamette Post was established in December 1813 on a knoll just east of this location by employees of the North West Company, a Montreal based fur-trading company. During the ensuing years the two-room log cabin, also known as Fort Kalapuya, served . . . — — Map (db m114308) HM
