Fort Colville
This file appears in: Spokane House
In 1826, the Hudson's Bay Company packed up Spokane House contents and moved north to establish Fort Colville. After Jaco Finlay's death in 1828, Spokane House was abandoned.
Image L2013-1.98 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
This file appears in: Spokane House
Spokane House
Spokane House was Washington state's first fur-trading post and home to Jaco Finlay, a clerk for the North West Company of Montreal. The son of a Scottish trader and an American Indian "country wife," Finlay prepared a trail across the…