If you go: What: Reconstructed Fort Vancouver, a fur-trading outpost that includes a working blacksmith’s shop. Where: 1001 E. Fifth St., Vancouver. Hours: Reconstructed fort is open 9 a.m.-4 p ...

Jamie Hale/The Oregonian Lee Pisarek, a volunteer at Fort Vancouver, works in the blacksmith shop at the national historic site. The National Park Service said the fee increases would generally ...

Part of the 366-acre Vancouver National Historic Reserve, Fort Vancouver is an appealing ... includes replica buildings of a blacksmith shop, jail, carpenter shop and more. National Park Service ...

They were the blacksmiths, the carpenters, the cooks, the gardeners. They were the laborers of Fort Vancouver,” Ranger Justine Hanrahan said. “And their stories haven’t been told as often as ...

In the Blacksmith Shop, we watched smiths yank ... at a trap until it snapped shut with an alarming “CLACK!” At Fort Vancouver, that sound meant money in the bank. By shadowy candlelight ...

Stormy skies over Fort Vancouver Photo Courtesy of Beth Harrington In the 1820s, the executives of the HBC decided to build a post on the north bank of the Columbia River near the site of present ...