FORT DURHAM - Juneau Alaska

[Puffer]

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I spent ALOT of time in Juneau on several bus.trips, incl. 2xs actually living there. BUT I Never learned about the Fact that the HBC built a Fort there, nor that their steamship Beaver was quite active there !!

This is a Great  new  [to Me] part of History !!!!

[BEAVERMAN]

Me either, can you expand on this info?

[Winter Hawk]

Yes sir, Ms. Anderson does put out a lot of information which is new to me, also.  I tried not to spend too much time in Juneau, mostly a week here and there with the Forest Service or National Guard so didn't have much time for sight seeing.  Too many politicians running around also.  It would have been nicer if the capital had been moved like the people wanted.  But then the representatives and senators would lose money on the homes they had bought there, so they made the plans for the new capital so expensive that the whole project fizzled.  A city under a climate controlled dome, anyone? 

~Kees~

[Puffer]

Fort Durham

Fort Durham was one of three locations (the others were Fort Stikine at Wrangell and Fort Yukon at the confluence of the Yukon and Porcupine rivers) established in Russian America by the Hudson's Bay Company. As such, it represents the British role in the great struggle between England, the United States, and the Russian Empire for control of the North Pacific fur trade. Fort Durham was built under provisions of a lease negotiated between the Russian American Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. The lease gave the British firm control of a ten-mile wide strip of Russian Alaska from 54 degrees 40 minutes North to Cape Spencer on Cross Sound. Fort Durham was erected during June to August 1840 about 25 miles south of the present day town of Juneau. The stockaded post served as a trading point for the Hudson's Bay Company until the spring of 1843. After that, the company abandoned the fort in favor of yearly visits to the area by its trading ship, Beaver. There are no surface remains at the Fort Durham site. Archaeological evidences of the trading post were discovered in 1975.

[BEAVERMAN]

Thanks Jack!