Fort Umpqua

Fort Umpqua

Fort Umpqua was a trading post built by the Hudson's Bay Company around 1838.cite book |last = Mackie |first= Richard Somerset |title= Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific 1793-1843 |year= 1997 |publisher= University of British Columbia (UBC) Press |location= Vancouver |isbn= 0-7748-0613-3 |pages= pp. 99-100 online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=VKXgJw6K088C Google Books] ] It was located on the Umpqua River, about convert|15|mi|km above the river's mouth in the company's Columbia District (or Oregon Country), in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon. The fort was intended to serve company's fur trade operations along the Umpqua River, Rogue River, and Klamath River.

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