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  Clatsop County, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Clatsop County is a county located in the state of Oregon.
The county was named for the Clatsop tribe of Native Americans, who lived along the coast of the Pacific Ocean prior to European settlement.
Clatsop County was created from the northern and western portions of the original Twality District on June 22, 1844.
lakeoswego.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Clatsop_County,_Oregon   (638 words)

  
 Clatsop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Clatsop (in the original language, La t cap, meaning "placed of dried salmon) are a small tribe of Chinookan-speaking Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
The Clatsop dialect used by the tribe is a nearly-extinct dialect of the Lower Chinookan language, a language in the Oregon Penutian family.
The tribe was encountered at the mouth of the Columbia in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Clatsop.htm   (576 words)

  
 Clatsop County, Oregon - Oregon.com
Clatsop County was named for the Clatsop Indians, one of many Chinook tribes living in Oregon.
The voters of Clatsop County approved a home rule charter in 1988, which called for a board of county commissioners as the policy determining body of the county, and a county administrative officer.
The population of Clatsop County was 35,630 in 2000, a 6.99% increase over 1990.
www.oregon.com /counties/clatsop.cfm   (549 words)

  
 Lewis and Clark . Native Americans . Clatsop Indians | PBS
Like their neighbors, the Chinooks, the Clatsops were a flourishing people, and enjoyed plentiful amounts of fish and fur.
When the expedition’s food supplies were running low, the Clatsops informed the Corps that a whale had washed ashore some miles to the south.
The only negative incident between the two groups – the expedition’s theft of a Clatsop canoe – was concealed from the Clatsops.
www.pbs.org /lewisandclark/native/cla.html   (299 words)

  
 Clatsop County Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 1951, the Clatsop County Historical Society became the steward of the Flavel property which was condemned and scheduled to become a parking lot for the adjacent Court House.
Clatsop County deeded the Flavel House property to CCHS on August 4, 1995.
In reaction to damage sustained on the interior of the Flavel House and to the collection objects housed inside, the Clatsop County Historical Society undertook a major preservation project during the Summer of 1999.
www.clatsophistoricalsociety.org /Pages/flavel.html   (1211 words)

  
 Historic Clatsop Indian photographs | Seaside Museum & Historical Society, Oregon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Informal portrait of Jennie Michelle, Clatsop Indian resident of Seaside, OR, seated in a doorway with basketry fibers on her lap.
Clatsop Indian women at Seaside, Oregon are Jennie Michelle Merchino and De-Oso, wife of Chief Katana.
She is known as the last of the Clatsops.
www.seasidemuseum.org /clatsop_photos.cfm   (644 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The fort was named after the local (Click link for more info and facts about Clatsop) Clatsop tribe of (Any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived) Native Americans.
Prior to the expedition's arrival, the Clatsop had frequently traded with other (A native or inhabitant of Europe) European traders and explorers visiting the area by ship.
The original fort decayed in the wet climate of the region but was reconstructed in 1955 from sketches in the journals of (United States explorer who (with Meriwether Lewis) led an expedition from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River; Clark was responsible for making maps of the area (1770-1838)) William Clark.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_clatsop.htm   (351 words)

  
 Clatsop County Reference Information - Seaside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Clatsop territory encompassed some 1100 square miles; its northern border, the Columbia River, extended upstream to the Tongue Point area, there forming an eastern border through the Coast Range wilderness to a border at the south running west to Tillamook Head; its western border, the Pacific Ocean, reached north to the mouth of the Columbia.
The Necanicum River, draining the south Clatsop region, nurtured groves of fir, spruce and pine, a rich groundcover including salal, kinnikinnik, wapato and camass, interspersed with meadows and berry thickets.
Skulls identify these people as Clatsop Flatheads--so called because of their sloping foreheads, a result of their practice of binding the infant across its brow with a strong piece of bark or wood that was tied firmly at both ends to the cradleboard.
www.clatsop.com /ccri/seaside   (377 words)

  
 Coastal Clatsop Watershed Area
Locally, large wood enters coastal Clatsop streams when trees die from disease, are knocked down by wind, come rushing down steep slopes in landslides or are released from steep upper streams in debris torrents.
The bulk of the coastal Clatsop basin, and the Coast Range's forests in general, is in private, industrial ownership.
Since the entire land area in a basin is critical to restoring individual salmon populations, and since individual salmon runs are critical to restoring the overall health of the larger salmon population, all landowners in all basins must take major steps toward restoring the landscape.
www.coastrange.org /clatsop.htm   (5537 words)

  
 Astoria, Oregon
John Frost was the first teacher and the first students were their six daughters and the son of James Birnie; classes were held in the Birnie home.
The second public school was established by WW Raymond for children of Clatsop plains settlers.
Under the terms of his will $2,000 was left for the establishment of a school on Clatsop plains, apparently as a gesture toward the school teacher had had fallen in love with.
members.aol.com /Gibson0817/astoria.htm   (1254 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop NMem: Administrative History (Chapter 2)
Rolf Klep's rendition of Fort Clatsop, utilized in the construction of the Fort Clatsop Replica.
The inward sloping roofs of the Fort Clatsop replica are derived from the Fort Mandan structure.
Clatsop County graded the parking area and furnished rock for the parking area and access roads.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/focl/adhi2e.htm   (1958 words)

  
 Clatsop County Historical Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is no coincidence that the place with the most spectacular scenery in the Pacific Northwest is also the place where the most important events in the history of the region have occurred: Clatsop County, Oregon.
The river was their "road" when Concomly, Chief of the Chinooks, built his empire based on trading relationships far inland and up and down the coast and when Coboway, Chief of the Clatsops, welcomed Lewis and Clark.
Donation Land Claims of 320 and 640 acres were taken up on Clatsop Plains near the shore of the Pacific Ocean, along the Columbia River and Youngs Bay.
www.clatsophistoricalsociety.org /Pages/history.html   (512 words)

  
 14-The Clatsop
Fort Clatsop was named for the closest tribe of Indians — the "La t cap" (meaning "place of dried salmon") — whose nearest village was seven miles away.
The Clatsop were a small Chinook-speaking tribe of some 200 people living in three separate villages of large cedar-plank houses.
Although many Clatsop visited the American fort and were friendly enough, trading, not socializing, was their main reason for coming.
www.umsl.edu /~econed/louisiana/Am_Indians/14-The_Clatsop/14-the_clatsop.html   (733 words)

  
 Anchor Habitats: Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests - Executive Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Similar opportunities are available to the managers of the two state forests and the residents of Clatsop and Tillamook counties.
Doing more with less is a successful economic development strategy that increases the level of community equity in the outcomes of forest management through business ownership, higher wage jobs, greater local flow of revenue dollars, and increased personal assets.
An anchor habitat plan for the restoration of salmon on the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests is the most ecologically and economically sound way to manage these forests.
www.inforain.org /mapsatwork/anchorhabitats   (1803 words)

  
 A visit to the winter encampment of explorers Lewis and Clark
For that's the way it was for 94 of the 106 days that explorers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their Corps of Discovery holed up here in the winter of 1805 and 1806.
Admission to Fort Clatsop National Memorial is a bargain at only $3 (or $5 per car- or RV-load).
Fort Clatsop, three miles east of U.S. 101 south of Astoria, is open daily from 8 a.m.
www.outwestnewspaper.com /lewisclark.html   (1135 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop NMem: Lewis and Clark Trail from Fort Clatsop to the Clatsop Plains
Fort Clatsop NMem: Lewis and Clark Trail from Fort Clatsop to the Clatsop Plains
It is reliably reported that Chief Coboway and other Clatsop Indians continued to occupy Fort Clatsop during the hunting season for 10 or 15 years after the expedition's departure.
An American missionary who visited the Fort Clatsop site in that year and who was familiar with the Clatsop Plains vicinity, soon afterwards stated: "The Indians have often pointed out to me the trail by which a gang of their [Lewis and Clark's] men went daily from their hut to the coast." [21]
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/focl/hussey/sectionf.htm   (1294 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop National Memorial Travel Information - US-Parks.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fort Clatsop commemorates the 1805-06 winter encampment of the 33-member Lewis and Clark Expedition.
A 1955 community-built replica of the explorers' 50'x50' Fort Clatsop is the focus of the park.
Salt obtained from seawater was essential to the explorers' winter at Fort Clatsop and their journey back to the United States in 1806.
www.us-parks.com /fort_clatsop   (480 words)

  
 Clatsop Community College Astoria, Oregon (Community Colleges)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Clatsop Community College is a public, two-year, co-educational institution serving northwest Oregon and southwest Washington.
With an enrollment of about 1300, CCC is located in Clatsop County at the mouth of the Columbia River in historic Astoria.
Fort Clatsop National Memorial is located nearby, containing a replica of the winter quarters where Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their fellow explorers spent the winter of 1805-06.
www.ohwy.com /or/c/clatsocc.htm   (209 words)

  
 Clatsop County Records Inventory
Clatsop County Register of Electors [Norwegian ancestry], 1914 (Genealogical Forum of Oregon).
In 1999 Clatsop County combined the administration of health, mental health, alcohol and drug, developmental disabilities, commission on children and families and other functions and services into the health and human services department.
Information includes a description of property (land, livestock, and farm and household goods) to be considered separate and declarations stating that the woman in question is not responsible for her husband's debts.
www.sos.state.or.us /archives/county/cpclatsopdescrip1.html   (11628 words)

  
 Journals of Lewis and Clark: Chapter I
The salt makers had made a neat, close camp, convenient to wood, salt water, and the fresh water of the Clatsop river, which at this place was l within 100 paces of the oceans.
Although we have not fared sumptuously this winter and spring at Fort Clatsop, we have lived quite as comfortably as we had any reason to expect we should; and have accomplished every object which induced our remaining at this place, except that of meeting with the traders who visit the entrance of this river.
I was shortly afterward informed of this transaction by an Indian who spoke the Clatsop language, some of which we had learned from them during the winter, and sent three men in pursuit of the thieves with orders that, if they made the least resistance or difficulty in surrendering the dog, to fire on them.
xroads.virginia.edu /~hyper/journals/lewis7.html   (13073 words)

  
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Clatsop Animal Assistance, Inc. was started by a small group of people who wanted to make a difference for the animals in Clatsop County and benefit the Clatsop County Animal Shelter in particular.
Advertising and posters promoting the homeless pets are paid for by CAA funds.  Assistance is also made possible in the community to low-income pet owners.  In addition to helping with emergency medical attention for their pets, we make spay and neuter certificates available.
Clatsop Animal Assistance, Inc. is supported by tax-deductible donations and the money generated during our fundraisers.  All members are volunteers.
www.dogsncats.org   (132 words)

  
 The Tillamook Story | Tillamook Rainforest Coalition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The rivers which flow through the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, their tributary and headwater streams, along with the rainwater the forests collect and help store, are an important source of clean water for nearby communities.
The Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests are named after two of the many Native American tribes and bands who lived in what became northwestern Oregon -- the Clatsops and Tillamooks, who along with the Clatskanies, Siletz, Alsea, Siuslaws, Yaquina and others, fished the rivers and hunted in the forests of the Coast Range.
Located a short distance from the Portland metropolitan area and coastal communities, the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests are popular destinations for hiking, mountain biking, camping, fishing and other recreational activities.
www.tillamookrainforest.org   (392 words)

  
 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
that of the Clatsops of the north and the Tillamooks of the south that its
Clatsop and Nehalem-Tillamook ancestry, descendents of the integrated
Clatsop Plains…Records of the Oregon Superintendency of Indian
www.clatsop-nehalem.com /history.html   (1221 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop National Memorial
While wintering at Fort Clatsop, Clark spent hours reviewing his notes and writings in preparation of mapping the "Unknown".
The members of the Lewis and Clark expedition remained at Fort Clatsop until March 23, 1806.
The Lewis and Clark National Historical Park (Fort Clatsop) - has arranged for special self and ranger guided hikes that highlight the beauty and the drama of the Oregon and Washington coast.
lewisandclarktrail.com /section4/orcities/astoria/fortclatsop   (261 words)

  
 Clatsop County Fair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Even though this is inland 7 miles from the ocean, the cool damp ocean air gives the fair a nice beach feel.
Clatsop County has a very large arena that holds most of the 4H animal exhibts.
It is a delightful completion to a fun evening in Clatsop County at the fair.
www.pdx1.com /2000clatsop.html   (185 words)

  
 Clatsop Community College - The best community products, sites and information on the web today!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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community.hugedir.com /index.php?k=clatsop-community-college   (774 words)

  
 Lewis & Clark: Fort Clatsop
Fort Clatsop was the last fort where the Corps of Discovery would stay until their journey home to St. Louis.
The Fort Clatsop we saw is a remake of the old Fort that is placed about where they found remains of the old Fort.
On our trip to Fort Clatsop we went to a beach and saw a chipwreck near where Lewis and Clark would have seen the whale.
www.ucds.org /LCWeb/lcseclatsop.htm   (214 words)

  
 LCBO - Fort Clatsop National Memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Fort Clatsop, on the banks of the Lewis and Clark River, was the winter encampment for The Corps of Discovery from December 1805 to March 1806.
During this time the Clatsop and Chinook Indians, whom Clark described as close bargainers, came to the fort almost daily to visit and trade.
Due to the rain, the men not consigned to hunting or saltmaking often stayed indoors engaged in variety of tasks, from servicing their weapons and preparing elk hide clothing for the homeward journey to making elk fat candles as light for journal writing.
www.lcbo.net /fort.htm   (1422 words)

  
 Fort Clatsop National Memorial Astoria, Oregon (National Parks)
It was on a wet Christmas Eve day in 1805 that the explorers of the Lewis & Clark Expedition moved into a stockade fort surrounded by lush old-growth forest, wetlands, and wildlife.
Named in honor of the local Clatsop Indians, the fort was home for the 33-member party for the winter of 1805-1806.
The Fort Clatsop Historical Association was established November 29, 1964 as a non-profit...
www.ohwy.com /or/f/fortclat.htm   (240 words)

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