Blockhouse ruins, Fort Colville, Washington

ID: 4971 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of Albert Henry Barnes, via Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: Albert Harry Barnes ~ Date: ca. 1910
This file appears in: The Shuttleworths of Fort Colville
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The ruins of the HBC's Fort Colville. Small blockhouse, barn and house in rear.

This file appears in: The Shuttleworths of Fort Colville

By Whitney Wyngaert
Frontier Washington was full of surprising and unexpected character, but perhaps none more so than Henry Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth was born in Bengal, India around 1837, the son of a colonial indigo farmer. While his youth is largely unknown,…