Clahclehlah and the Corridor of Commerce

Costly Exchange
First explores brought new ideas and cultural differences, but also deadly diseases.
Earliest Traders
First white men into the area were fur traders working for Hudson's Bay Company.
Costly Exchange
First explores brought new ideas and cultural differences, but also deadly diseases.

Date:March 18, 2012

Turning Point

The gallery structure represents a trading post and First People’s contact with the Euro-American culture. The information and artifacts indicate the contact with explorers, fur trappers, traders and missionaries introduced not only different cultures but deadly diseases.

An historic stone marker is displayed with the date 1811 incised into it and the letters, HBCo. It is a trail marker indicating a survey was made of the availability of furs in the area for the Hudson Bay Company. Other items of interest are a bear coat, pelt stencil, Phoenix buttons and snow shoes.

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Time prints of the millennia are boldly etched on the walls of the Columbia Gorge. They record a 40-million-year-long story of change, endurance and majesty. The first human imprints in the Gorge were left by the Indian cultures that flourished here for thousands of years, drawing both spiritual and physical strength from this.

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