Official website (https://www.fortross.org/)
Fort Ross
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former Russian establishment in the United States of America
Key facts
- Location
- Fort Ross State Historic Park , Sonoma County , California
- Nearest city
- Healdsburg, California
- Added to nrhp
- October 15, 1966
- Designated nhl
- November 5, 1961
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Fort Ross, California
Fort Ross Historic State Park is located in Sonoma County, California. In one location you have: Colony of Russian Empire and the list goes on.
fortross.org →Fort Ross Conservancy (previously the Fort Ross Interpretive Association) has been a State Park Cooperating Association since 1976. Important current projects include: The mission of Fort Ross Conservancy, Incorporated, is to promote for the benefit of the public the interpretive and educational activities of the Russian River Sector of California State Parks at Fort Ross State Historic Park and Salt Point State Park. Fort Ross Conservancy will not sell, trade nor share donors’ & members’ personal information, including e-mail addresses, nor send them mailings on behalf of other organizations, without their explicit written permission.
Read more on their site →Excerpt from the official site · 4,001 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
Fort Ross is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California, United States. It was the first multi-ethnic community north of the Spanish missions in what is now the U.S. state of California. Owned and operated by the Russian-American Company, it was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America from 1812 to 1841. Notably cosmopolitan, different ethnic groups settled in and around the fort: Native Californians, Native Alaskans, Russians, Finns, Swedes. It has been the subject of archaeological investigation and is a California Historical Landmark, a National Historic Landmark, and on the National Register of Historic Places. It is part of California's Fort Ross State Historic Park.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fort Ross” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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