'Fur Fort' Cannon - High Desert Museum - Bend, OR
N 43° 57.971 W 121° 20.516
10T E 633010 N 4869453
The High Desert Museum contains a small cannon as part of a historic display of items from northwest forts during the Hudson Bay Trading Company days. Admission fees apply.
Waymark Code: WMWRMX
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2017
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Visitors to the High Desert Museum may do a walk-through of a building containing displays of the early days of Oregon's High Desert when the first settlers arrived. In addition to the displays of Native Americans that lived in the Pacific Northwest is a display highlighting the 'fur forts' that existed. An interpretive display reads:
Fur Forts
Outposts of Empires
In the early 1800s, English and American fur companies competed for the region's wealth of beaver pelts. The Hudson's Bay Company dominated and established strategic forts to supply trappers, trade with Native American's and maintain a presence for future claims. These forts were communities unto themselves, with skilled craftsmen, farms and trade stores. They were the first foothold in the settlement of the High Desert.
As part of this display is a small cannon.