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Rh York out to sea by the historic battleship "Constitution." She arrived off the mouth of the Columbia, March 22, 1811, and three days later rode safely into Baker's Bay within shelter of the Cape-the ship having lost seven of her crew in a hazardous effort to find a channel across the bar.

Astoria Founded. "On the twelfth of April" according to Gabriel Franchere, one of Astor's clerks, "Astor's partners who had come on the 'Tonquin,' began the erection of a log fort on the south side of the Columbia River on a point which was christened 'Astoria,' in honor of the founder and chief promoter of the enterprise, a name now borne by a thriving commercial city, which marks the spot where America first planted her foot squarely

ASTORIA IN 1811