Talk:Spokane House

Two Fort Spokanes?

Just a quick note re the Fort Spokane mentioned in this article - there is a later Fort Spokane from the era of the Indian Wars; it's unclear from what I've read on it if it's on the same spot as either the original Fort Spokane or SpokaneHouse. I'm thinking two different articles might be de rigeur.....Fort Coville has a similarly dual history, likewise Wrangel/Stikine, and in each case I'm not sure that the US Army post is on the same site as the originalfur posts.Skookum1 (talk) 21:13, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Yep, the later Fort Spokane was not in the same place. I was in Spokane not long ago and noted this on the map. There are two separate historic sites associated with them. And yes, there are a number of forts with a history like this. An example of one that has been given separate pages is (Old) Fort Walla Walla and Fort Walla Walla. Pfly (talk) 05:13, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, on that note, it occurs to me that Category:Forts in British Columbia, Category:Forts in Washington and their sibling cats should have subcats Category:Fur trade forts in British Columbia, Category:Fur trade forts in Washington vs. Category:Military forts in Washington (there would be no corresponding BC cat, or if there were it would be very small; Fort Rupert, Fort Nanaimo (even though all fur trade forts, or most of them, were militaryily-conceived and often so used). Fort Stikine was a fur trade post primarily; Fort Wrangell a military outpost, and so on; and on further thought "fur trade posts" might be preferable to, or a prent cat for "fur trade forts" etc. BTW by now you probably know about Old Fort Langley vs Fort Langley; though both were fur posts, albeit with military-related histories/actions/events.Skookum1 (talk) 02:00, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Expansions

I added more information on Spokane House and the rival Fort Spokane on the same page for an important reason. After the liquidation of the PFC, Fort Spokane became used by the NWC and later HBC as Spokane House. The article prior to my expansion misidentified the PFC Fort Spokane with a later station of the same name made by the U.S. Army. This Army post was some distance away from where Spokane House was. First hand accounts of the original Spokane House and Fort Spokane note the distance between them was at most one mile. Voltaire's Vaquero (talk) 17:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)