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How did Lewis and Clark spend their first North Coast winter?
FORT CLATSOP — On the
days following Christmas,
Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park will offer
special programs about the
Corps of Discovery’s winter
at Fort Clatsop.
Starting Tuesday, Dec.
26, Fort Clatsop will feature
scheduled living history
programs by park rangers
each day from 9:30 a.m. to
4:40 p.m. through Monday,
Jan. 1.
Costumed rangers will
present flintlock muz-
zle-loading programs at 1:30
and 3:30 p.m.
Hands-on programs
about various aspects of the
explorers’ winter at Fort
Clatsop will be available at
the fort 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. and 2 to 3 p.m.
Ranger-guided walks on
the Netul River Trail will be
offered at 1:45 p.m. most of
these days.
There are also movies
in the visitor center. “A
Clatsop Winter Story,” a
22-minute film about the
1805-06 winter from a Clat-
sop Indian perspective, and
“Lewis and Clark: Conflu-
COURTESY SALLY FREEMAN
Visitors learn about Lewis and Clark’s adventures at Lewis and
Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop.
COURTESY SALLY FREEMAN
Reenactors fire flintlocks
ence of Time and Courage,”
a 34-minute film about
the entire voyage, will be
offered each hour.
The park is closed Christ-
mas Day.
A unit of the National
Park Service, Lewis and
Clark National Historical
Park, Fort Clatsop, is located
southwest of Astoria, three
miles southeast of U.S.
Highway 101. The park —
including the Fort to Sea
Trail, the visitor center, fort,
Netul River Trail and the
parking lots — is open 9
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lewis and Clark National
Historical Park also includes
the Salt Works site near the
Promenade in Seaside and
the Middle Village/Station
Camp site just east of Fort
Columbia in Washington.
Come and visit these sites
during the time of year the
expedition stayed on the
coast. Admission to the Fort
Clatsop unit of the park is $5
per adult and includes Netul
Landing and the Fort to Sea
Trail. Dogs that are leashed
to their humans are welcome
on the walks and at the out-
door programs.
There is no admission fee
for the Salt Works or Middle
Village/Station Camp. Pass-
es to National Park Service
sites are accepted for free
admission.
For more information,
call the park at 503-861-
4414, visit the park’s
website at nps.gov/lewi or
find the park on Facebook at
LewisandClarkNationalHis-
toricalPark.
What happened when an Indian woman
refused to marry the ‘white man’s way’
ASTORIA — The Clatsop
County Historical Society’s
lecture series, Thursday
Night Talks, continues
Dec. 21 with a look into
the county’s first known
probate case.
The Oregon Territorial
Court Journal, recently
found in the basement of
the Astoria Library, sheds
new light on the county’s
first probate case, which
was so controversial it had
to be decided by the Ore-
gon Territory’s Supreme
Court in 1854.
In dispute was the inher-
itance rights of the
decision.
children of a Clat-
The lecture series
sop Indian woman
is a free event at the
who had refused to
Fort George Show-
room in the Lovell
marry her husband
Building on the
Calvin Tibbets in
third Thursday of
the “white man’s
Jerry
each month. Doors
way.” The Tibbets’
Sutherland
open at 6 p.m., with
children had been
lectures beginning
denied their right to
inherit the sizable estate of at 7 p.m. Seasonal beers
their father, Calvin Tibbets. on tap, food and other
beverages are available
Please join us for an
for purchase. Minors are
engaging presentation by
welcome with an accompa-
Jerry Sutherland, author of
nying adult.
the book “Calvin Tibbets:
For more information
Oregon’s First Pioneer,”
about this event or other
and learn the court’s final
Historical Society ac-
tivities, please call 503-
325-2203 or email cchs@
cumtux.org.
Clatsop County His-
torical Society is a 501(c)
(3) nonprofit educational
organization dedicated
to preserving and pre-
senting the history of
Clatsop County Oregon
and the surrounding area.
The society operates the
Flavel House Museum,
the Heritage Museum, the
Oregon Film Museum and
the Uppertown Firefighters
Museum.