George Pickett's Commute

ID: 402 ~ Source: Vouri, Mike. The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay. Seattle: Discover Your Northwest, 2016. ~ Creator: Video, Narration, and script by Neil Christenson

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A narrated, accelerated journey showing the modern trip from the site of Fort Bellingham to the house in town where George Pickett lived.

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Fort Bellingham – The Army’s Northernmost Outpost in the Pacific Northwest

By Neil Christenson

Fort Bellingham was established in 1856 by the US Army to be a northern outpost protecting the growing communities of Whatcom County. Constructed on a bluff overlooking Bellingham Bay and at the mouth of the Nooksack River, the fort was able to…