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In 1905 the house burned down.Ī geodetic survey and section line surveys were first established in this area in 1856 by General Land Office Surveyors Joseph and John Trutch. They moved to Portland sometime between 18.īy 1890 the Smith house was unoccupied. The Stevenson's were living there by Jwhen surveyors were in the area. There is a little discrepancy here since Stevenson supposedly rented the house starting sometime between 18, however the Smith's lived there until 1880. The Stevenson's had a land claim just up the Lewis and Clark River. After the Smith family moved out, Joseph and Louisa Stevenson moved in. The Smith's lived in the house for eight years before moving to Portland in 1880. Bricks were made on site and marketed in Astoria. Clay mined in the Fort Clatsop area was loaded on barges at the Canoe Landing area to be taken to the pottery company in Portland. Later William Smith and James Steel, a Portland banker, formed the Portland Pottery Company, based in Portland. The Smith's mined clay from the area starting in 1877 or 1888. One of these additions was built on top of the old log thought to be a portion of the original Fort Clatsop. Two additions were added to the house, one in 1872 and the other in 1875. The map shows the log lying just north of the center portion of the house (under their kitchen). The sketch map provided by Harlan Smith in 1957 shows the location of the log to be under an addition to the house. They built along side of it" (Harlan Smith 1957). They "respect(ed) that log as a momento of the old Fort Clatsop. This log was positioned in a East/West direction. The house was built adjacent to a half buried rotten log which the Smith's claimed, or rather thought, was a remnant of the original Fort Clatsop. William Hampton Smith and his wife Ada built a house in 1872 near the location of the original Fort Clatsop.