Fort Vancouver Historic Structures Report

1. Wilkes, Narrative, IV, 378.

2. Emmons, Journal, MS, III, entry for July 25, 1841. See plate III. It will be noted that this location was convenient to the Big House as it must have been placed when first moved down to the new fort site in 1829.

3. James Dwight Dana, Notebooks kept while Serving as Geologist on the U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842, MS, [III], [n.p.], in Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library.

4. Wilkes, op. cit., IV, 378.

5. Caywood, Final Report, 21.

6. Mr. Caywood supported the latter view and suggested that the abandoned 1841 well might be found by archeological testing at the site shown by Emmons. Ibid., 21-22.

7. Lowe, Private Journal, MS, 13.

8. Caywood, Final Report, 22. Vavasour definitely stated that the fort contained two wells, thus implying that there were no more at the time of his visit. Schafer, "Documents Relative to Warre and Vavasour's Military Reconnoissance," in OHQ, X (March, 1909), 85-86.

9. See plate LV.

10. Schafer, "Documents Relative to Warre and Vavasour's Military Reconnoissance, in OHQ, X (March, 1909), 85-86.

11. Report of a board of officers, January 23, 1854, in Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [IX], 104-106.

12. Susan Kardas, 1969 Excavations at the Kanaka Village Site, Fort Vancouver, Washington (typescript, Bryn Mawr College, May, 1970), 97-100.

13. Br. & Am. Joint Comm., Papers, [II], 118-119; Elliott, "British Values in Oregon, 1847," in OHQ, XXXII (March, 1931), 32-35.

14. Caywood, Final Report, 20-21.

15. Ibid., 21.

16. Caywood, Final Report, 44-45.

17. Caywood, Final Report, 22.

18. J. J. Hoffman, Memorandum to Chief, Archeological Investigations, Western Service Center, [Fort Vancouver National Historic Site], February 1, 1971, MS.

19. The Beaver, vol. I, no. 5 (February 1921), 16.