Fort Colville

ID: 3312
This file appears in: Spokane House: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

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: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

By The Spokane Historical team
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,"…