Location (military name): Fort Canby
Harbor: Columbia River
Location: Cape Disappointment
Years active military: 1852-1947
Named for : Brevet Major General Edward R.S. Canby, killed by Modoc Indians, Lava Beds, CA, Apr. 3, 1873, G.O. 5, June 28, 1875
Fort Canby 1937
Garrison area 1910s?
Current Status:
Current name of site: Cape Disappointment State Park
USCG Station Cape Disappointment
Multiple Owners: yes
Public Owners/Agency: State of Washington, Dept. of Rec. & Parks
U.S. Coast Guard Cape Disappointment
Private Owners: no
Public accessibility: Yes
Museum/Interpretive Center: yes
Other Facilities: state park, camping, boating, beach access,
two lighthouses
Contact address/Information:
Battery Harvey Allen and the pintle from one of the Civil War era batteries, Cape Disappointment State Park (2003)
Structures:
Pre-1890s structures: 3 Rodman batteries built 1863 (no trace
remains)
Garrison structures: yes (none remain)
Fire Control: several
Mine Project: no structures at Canby
Virtual Tour Pages
Emplacements/Batteries:
Battery Harvey Allen (3-6" guns DC)
Battery Elijah O'Flyng (2-6" guns DC)
Battery Francis L. Guenther (4-12" mortars)
BCN 247 (2-6" guns BC)
AMTB #2 (2 -90 mm guns fixed, 2-90 mm guns mobile)
Reference Documents
Fort Canby RCWs
Fort Canby Quartermaster Building Records
Harbor Defenses of the Columbia River Engineer Notebooks
Annex to the Harbor Defense Project for the Columbia River 1937
Supplement to the Harbor Defense Project for the Columbia River 1944/46
Notes/History/Post-coast artillery military use/Comments: Part of reservation transferred to the Coast Guard and the rest to the State in 1950s. State Park developed in the 1960s. All garrison structures have been destroyed. State built the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center on the parapet of Battery Allen in the 1980s.
Fort Canby 1934
Fort Canby 1946