Fort Nisqually (DuPont, Wash.)

found: NUCMC data from U. of Wash. Lib. for Work, J. Papers, 1823-1862(Fort Nisqually, a Hudson's Bay Company settlement)

found: Washington State, 1986(In 1841 Charles Wilkes came to Puget Sound; spent several days in the Sound, some of them as guest at the Hudson's Bay Company post of Fort Nisqually)

found: Wikipedia, Nov. 21, 2011(Fort Nisqually was an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area of what is now DuPont, Wash. and was part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department. Today it is a living history museum located in Tacoma, Wash. within the boundaries of Point Defiance Park; Fort Nisqually was originally located near the mouth of Sequalitchew Creek on the plains north of the Nisqually River Delta, in the present town of DuPont, Wash.; the fort was relocated in 1843 about a mile from the original fort, closer to Edmonds Marsh and Sequalitchew Creek; never a military outpost; in the 1930s, Fort Nisqually was rebuilt in its current location in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Wash. The 1833 location is located on The Home Course golf course in DuPont. The 1843 location in DuPont, where the buildings now at Point Defiance were originally located, is owned by The Archaeological Conservancy, is managed by DuPont Historical Society)

found: Washington place names, via WWW, Nov. 28, 2011(Fort Nisqually. Two forts by this name were built by Hudson's Bay Company two miles apart. They were near the present town of DuPont in northwest Pierce County. The first, built in 1833, was on Nisqually Reach near the water's edge, directly south of Sequalitchew Creek, and was usually referred to as Fort Nesqually. The fur trading post was moved northeast about two miles in 1843 and was referred to as Nisqually House by Puget's Sound Agricultural Company, a Hudson's Bay Company subsidiary which operated it as a trading post, agricultural center and fort. Coordinates: 47.11928+N,122.6618+W)