Settlements Established in 1811 - Athens, Ohio, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, Citronelle, Alabama, Attica, New York (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Chapters: Athens, Ohio, San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, Citronelle, Alabama, Attica, New York, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Fox Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania, College Corner, Ohio, Busti, New York, Bendersville, Pennsylvania, Jackson Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Deposit, New York, Red Creek, New York, Worthington, Pennsylvania, Grove Township, Cameron County, Pennsylvania, Kamloops, Patillas, Puerto Rico, Tremadog, Hunts Corners, Ohio, Pollena Trocchia. Excerpt: Kamloops - Kamloops and the Thompson River, 1886The Kamloops area was exclusively inhabited by the Secwepemc (Shuswap) nation (part of the Interior Salish language group) prior to the arrival of European settlers. The first European explorers arrived in 1811, in the person of David Stuart, sent out from Fort Astoria, then still a Pacific Fur Company post, and who spent a winter there with the Secwepemc people, with Alexander Ross establishing a post there in May 1812 - "Fort Cumcloups." Later in the year, with the rival North West Company establishing another post - Fort Shuswap - nearby in the same year. The two operations were merged in 1813 when the North West Company officials in the region bought out the operations of the North West Company. After the North West Company's forced merger with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821, the post became known commonly as Thompson's River Post, or Fort Thompson, which over time became known as Fort Kamloops. The post's journals, kept by its Chief Traders, document a series of inter-Indian wars and personalities for the period and also give much insight to the goings-on of the fur companies and their personnel throughout the entire Pacific slope. Soon after the forts were founded, the main local village of the Secwepemc, then headed by a chief named Kwa'lila, was moved close ...