Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Field School 

Portland State University, in collaboration with the National Park Service 
(NPS), will sponsor a seven-week field school at Fort Vancouver National 
Historic Site, Vancouver, WA, Summer 2001. The program will include 
excavation within the Hudson’s Bay Company palisade, focusing on the ca. 1843 
Sale Shop, which, between 1843 and 1860, served as the Company store to 
employees, missionaries, government expeditions, and local settlers. The 
excavations will recover additional architectural information to assist in 
the reconstruction and interpretation of the building, which the NPS will be 
reconstructing in the historical park. A survey portion of the school will be 
conducted in the Company (Kanaka) Village and in the U.S. Army’s Vancouver 
Barracks. Doug Wilson and Bob Cromwell (National Park Service) will be 
directing the project. The Field School will run from June 25 through August 
10. For additional information (fees, course credit, application, etc), 
please contact Douglas C. Wilson, Ph.D. (360) 696-7659 x24.


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Robert Cromwell, M.A.
Park Archaeologist
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
National Park Service
612 E Reserve St.
Vancouver, WA 98661
Bob_Cromwell @nps.gov