UNCOVERING A PAST: Champoeg Park      To view a video, click on your connection speed
Location: Oregon    Length: 17.5 min        56k      300k    56k      300k
At what is now Champoeg State Park in Oregon's Willamette Valley on May 2, 1843, a historic vote of American settlers and former Hudson's Bay Company employees established the first provisional American government on the Pacific Coast. Destroyed by flooding in the 1860s, the community of Champoeg now is coming into sharper focus through archaeological study by Oregon State University. See in this video how painstaking excavation reveals details of pioneer life not described in history books.