Kullyspel House

For more than a century nobody could say where the post had stood. In 1923 a Kalispel man known as Old Alec led the way to its ruins on the Hope Peninsula, across from Memaloose Island, and a monument followed. Thompson's journal records choosing the site on September 10, 1809, with two Native guides, and finishing the storehouse by the 23rd, its roof of small logs plastered with grass and mud because the soil lacked the blue clay he wanted; melting snow found its way through. Finan McDonald was left in charge. The probable site is private land today.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farragut State Park — 24 mi
  The Navy built its second-largest boot camp 375 miles from the ocean, and still tests submarines on the lake.

More markers nearby

• Chinese Railroad Workers — 3.6 mi
• Long Bridges — 13 mi
• Bayview Limekilns — 22 mi
• Submarine Testing — 22 mi