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English: Remains of Fort Bellingham, April 29, 1894   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Alvin H. Waite  (1862–1929)  wikidata:Q42319410
 
Alvin H. Waite
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 1862 Edit this at Wikidata 1929 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Iowa Edit this at Wikidata Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q42319410
Title
English: Remains of Fort Bellingham, April 29, 1894
Description
English: Notes in inventory: New Whatcom, Wash., 3 miles west. Remains of Fort Bellingham. At head of Bellingham Bay looking southwest .

This fort, built in 1856 and abandoned in 1860, was on a bluff overlooking Bellingham Bay, 3-1/2 miles west of the mouth of Whatcom Creek in southwest Whatcom County. It was named for Bellingham Bay and was once commanded by George Pickett who as a Confederate General led the famous Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

New Whatcom was an early town on Bellingham Bay formed by the merger of Whatcom and Sehome in 1891, assisted by the coming of a large number of settlers from Kansas. This town later combined with Fairhaven to form the city of Bellingham. Whatcom is an Indian word meaning "noisy rumbling water" referring to Whatcom Falls.

PH Coll 291.143
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Forts & fortifications--Washington (State); Ruins--Washington (State)
  • Subjects (LCSH): Fort Bellingham (Wash.); Bellingham Bay (Wash.)
Depicted place Whatcom County, Washington
Date 29 April 1894
date QS:P571,+1894-04-29T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
22
Source
English: Alvin H. Waite Photographs Collection
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The author died in 1929, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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WAT032

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