Rock Fort Campsite

United States historic place

Rock Fort Campsite

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Rock Fort Campsite looking upriver (east), the direction the Lewis and Clark Expedition came from when it stopped here.

Location| West 1st Street
The Dalles, Oregon[1]
Coordinates| 45°36′25″N 121°11′17″W﻿ / ﻿45.60694°N 121.18806°W﻿ / 45.60694; -121.18806
NRHP reference No.| 80003389[1]
Added to NRHP| September 4, 1980[1]

The Rock Fort Campsite is a natural fortification on the south shore of the Columbia River in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. The Lewis and Clark Expedition camped at this defensible spot for three nights in late October 1805, just after it passed Celilo Falls on its descent to the Pacific Ocean, and again for one night on their return journey. It was here that the expedition first made significant contact and commerce with the Chinookan-speaking peoples of the lower Columbia.[2][3]

## See also[edit]

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Wasco County, Oregon

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (June 6, 2011), Oregon National Register List (PDF), retrieved February 27, 2012
2. ^ Seufert, Gladys; Potter, Elisabeth Walton; Chuinard, E. G. (October 1979), National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Rock Fort Campsite (PDF).
3. ^ Ambrose, Stephen E. (1996), Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, New York: Simon & Schuster, pp. 305–307, ISBN 978-0-684-82697-4

## External links[edit]

* National Register of Historic Places photographic file

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