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Fort Ross ( Russian: Форт-Росс, romanized : Fort-Ross, крепости Росс, kreposti Ross) is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North America in what is now Sonoma County, California. It was the hub of the southernmost Russian settlements in North America from 1812 to 1841.
Fort Ross was founded by the Russian-American Company in 1812. Most of the Fort's buildings are reproductions. The one original structure remaining from the Russian settlement, the commander's house, is a National Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.
By 1818 Fort Ross had a population of 128, consisting of 26 Russians and of 102 Native Americans. [5] : 181 The Russians maintained it until 1841, when they left the region. [21] As of 2015 [update] Fort Ross is a Federal National Historical Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places .
As the marine fur-bearers became too depleted to hunt and contracts with the Hudson's Bay Company provided food for the Alaskan settlements, the Russians abandoned Fort Ross in 1841. By the end of the 19th century, California sea otters had been hunted to near extinction.
Fort Ross was founded in 1812 by a team from the Russian-American Company under the leadership of Ivan Kuskov. The Rotchev House is one of the buildings constructed during the first year; other buildings included barracks, a chapel, and storehouses. The fort was sold in 1841 to John Sutter and was vacated by the Russian company in 1842.
Russian-American Company. The Russian-American Company Under the High Patronage of His Imperial Majesty [2] was a state-sponsored chartered company formed largely on the basis of the United American Company. Emperor Paul I of Russia chartered the company in the Ukase of 1799. [1] [3] It had the mission of establishing new settlements in Russian ...
Fort Ross is an abandoned former trading post on Somerset Island, in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. Founded in 1937, it was the last trading post to be established by the Hudson's Bay Company. It was operational for only eleven years, being abandoned in 1948, as severe ice conditions in the surrounding waters made the site hard to ...
Rancho Muniz. Coordinates: 38.48°N 123.15°W. Rancho Muniz (also called "Maniz") was a 17,761-acre (71.88 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Sonoma County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Manuel Torres. [1] The grant extended along the Pacific coast from Salt Point State Park on the north to the Russian River on the south.