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Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
View of the southern end of the park.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Frenchman's Bar ...
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Frenchman's Bar is located on the Washington side of the Columbia River at River Mile (RM) 100.5. The area was named after Paul Haury, a French sailor who jumped ship in British Columbia and later bought land in the area west of Vancouver, Washington.
Sauvie Island, Kelley Point, and the mouth of the Willamette River are visible across the Columbia from the beaches of Frenchman's Bar. Upstream from Frenchman's Bar is Hewlett Point and Blurock Landing. Vancouver Lake lies two miles east, and is connected to Frenchman's Bar by a formal trail.
The area of Frenchman's Bar and nearby Caterpillar Island was at once time known as "Upper Willow Bar", with nearby Sauvie Island's Willow Bar Islands being the "Lower Willow Bar".
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Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington, looking upstream.
Image taken June 29, 2003.
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Columbia River from Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
Sauvie Island, Oregon, is in the background.
Image taken July 8, 2006.
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Frenchman's Bar Park ...
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Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington, was built in 1997. Frenchman's Bar Park is a 120-acre regional park with over a mile of sandy beaches.
The park is located two miles west of
Vancouver Lake Park. A two-and-one-half-mile asphalt Frenchman's Bar Trail connects the two parks. Just upstream of Frenchman's Bar is Hewlett Point and Blurock Landing, another spot of sandy beachs and
a view of five volcanoes.
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Views around Frenchmans Bar Park ...
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Frenchman's Bar Park looking across the Columbia towards Sauvie Island.
Image taken June 29, 2003.
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Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
Sauvie Island, Oregon, is in the background.
Image taken July 8, 2006.
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Volleyball, Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
Sauvie Island and the Columbia River (looking downstream) are in the background.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
View of the southern end of the park.
Sauvie Island and the Columbia River (looking downstream) are in the background.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Early Frenchman's Bar ...
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An 1888 plat map for Washington Territory shows the land around Frenchman's Bar to be part of the Donation Land Claim (DLC) of D. Sturgis.
An undated plat map for Clark County, Washington, presumed to be between 1915 and 1925
shows the area of Frenchman's Bar, which was once the DLC of D. Sturgis, now owned by D. Mullingan.
In 1915, Paul Haury, a Frenchman for whom Frenchman's Bar is named, bought the land around Frenchman's Bar.
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"Frenchman's Bar was named after Paul Haury, a Frenchman who bound out to engage in fur trading in Alaska. Fleeing intolerable conditions, Paul jumped ship and made his way to Astoria to work in the salmon canneries. Wanting to increase his wealth above that of a low-paid cannery worker, he searched the Washington shoreline of the Columbia River for an ideal fish netting location and in 1915 he purchased land five miles down stream from Fort Vancouver."
[From information sign located at Frenchman's Bar Park, 2006]
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Information Sign, Frenchman's Bar Park.
The sign is located at the extreme upstream end of Frenchman's Bar Park, looking towards Hewlett Point.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Information Sign, Frenchman's Bar Park, with information about Paul Haury.
The sign is located at the extreme upstream end of Frenchman's Bar Park, looking towards Hewlett Point.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Information Sign, Frenchman's Bar Park, showing Broughton Point.
The sign is located at the extreme upstream end of Frenchman's Bar Park, looking towards Broughton Point (today's Hewlett Point).
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Views from Frenchman's Bar ...
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Sauvie Island from Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
Image taken July 8, 2006.
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Frenchman's Bar, Vancouver, Washington, looking towards Sauvie Island.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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Fishing, Frenchman's Bar Park, Vancouver, Washington.
Sauvie Island, Oregon, is in the background.
Image taken July 3, 2005.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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