Laura, I believe Fort Henrietta was at the site of the present town of Echo, Umatilla Co. OR. It would have been closer to Heppner, Morrow Co. OR than the Dalles. I was raised in both Echo and Heppner. Judy -- MZ

LOL...oops, I think I was misleading in my previous post. I didn't even see the part about Fort Henrietta, and frankly I have absolutely no idea where it was. :-) I was strictly speaking of the Methodist Missionaries who showed up at an early date at Ft Dalles (The Dalles) and were the basis of not only much of the early religious activity in Wasco Co., but also many other transactions that essentially contributed a tremendous amount to the settlement of that area. It is one of the subjects that I plan to research further on my next trip to The Dalles, because the Methodists are frequently mentioned in a pretty wide array of writeups about the formation of the Wasco Co. area. I would guess that Judy is probably quite right about Ft. Henrietta, since she was raised in that area and has obviously studied the history there, so I don't dispute that at all. However, I might add that in the earliest years of Wasco County, it did include all of what is east of the Cascade Mountains and west of the Rockies, as far north as Montana -- so it's also possible that Ft. Henrietta did once actually fall within the confines of the mega-Wasco Co., even if it now is in Umatilla or Morrow Co. I do apologize for misleading anyone. I'm rather one-tracked when it comes to the mention of Wasco Co., so I spouted off before fully digesting the post to which I was responding. -- Cheri [email protected] --->>>^<<<--- Wasco Co., OR GenWeb site--> http://www.historysavers.com/orwasco/