FORT COLVILLE

The trade center 'Fort Colville' (also "Colvile") was built by the Hudson's Bay Company at Kettle Falls on the Columbia River, a few miles west of the present site of Colville, Washington in 1825. It was named for Andrew Colville, a London governor of Hudson's Bay Company. As a Hudson's Bay fort on the frontier, Fort Colville was considered second in importance only to Fort Vancouver, near the mouth of the Columbia. Abandoned in 1870, some buildings stood until they burned in 1910. The construction of Grand Coulee Dam flooded the site along with the Kettle Falls in 1940. Lake Roosevelt was drawn down for construction of Grand Coulee Dam's Powerhouse #3 in the late 1960's and early 70's, revealing the Falls and the site of old Fort Colville, where archeological work was performed by Washington State University and the University of Idaho.

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★ Fort Colville history

★ Fort Colville Journal 1830-31