CAMAS — Local archaeologist Amy Clearman will present “The Search for the First Fort Vancouver” at 2 p.m. June 1 in the meeting room at the Camas Police Department, 2100 Third Ave. The event will be hosted by the Camas-Washougal Historical Society.
The Portland State University graduate student has searched for the first Fort Vancouver, built nearly 200 years ago, in neighborhoods east of the reconstructed Fort Vancouver.
For her master’s thesis project, Clearman worked with neighborhood residents to archaeologically excavate for evidence of the first fort on their property, and her talk will cover a history of the North American fur trade in the Pacific Northwest, the role of Fort Vancouver in establishing settlement in the area and results of the search for the first Fort Vancouver. She is also a graduate research assistant at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
