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Clatsop County Courthouse in Astoria, Oregon, 1960
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| PHOTO ID | 3391 |
| TITLE | Clatsop County Courthouse in Astoria, Oregon, 1960 |
| COLLECTION | Ben Maxwell |
| DESCRIPTION | This is the Clatsop County courthouse in Astoria as seen on September 17, 1960. Clatsop District was created by the provisional legislature by an act passed June 22, 1844, and comprised parts of the northern and western parts of Twality District. Clatsop is the name of an Indian tribe. The Clatsops were of the Chinookan family, formerly at the mouth of the Columbia River, on the south side, between Tongue Point and the ocean, and south to Tillamook Head. Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1805-06 among them at Fort Clatsop. Clatsop County has an area of 934 square miles. It was near Astoria that Captain Robert Gray discovered the mouth of the Columbia River and gave to the United States its claim to the title of the territory. It was near here that Lewis and Clark passed the winter of 1805-6 and it was here that the first commercial settlement was the direct result of the organization of the Pacific Fur Company in 1810 by John Jacob Astor of New York. John Astor was born in Germany in 1763 and died on March 29, 1848. Astoria post office was established on March 9, 1847, with John M. Shively first postmaster. |
| DATE | 1960,September17 |
| SUBJECTS | Astoria, Oregon; Clatsop County; courthouse; Chinookan Indians; Astor, John Jacob; Gray, Robert; Pacific Fur Company; Shively, John M. |
| PHOTOGRAPHER | Ben Maxwell |
| OBJECT | b/w photo; negative |
| DIMENSIONS | H 5 inches L 7 inches |
| PHOTO SOURCE | Salem Public Library |
| ACCESSION ID | ORCO.1.4 |
| IMAGE FILENAME | B4A0DD4B.jpg |
| Date created | 2003-01-17 |
| Date modified | 2003-01-17 |
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