Editing Fort Hall (section)

{{Short description|Fortification}}
{{Other uses|Fort Hall (disambiguation)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox| bodystyle   = 
| above       = Fort Hall
| abovestyle  = background-color: khaki
| subheader   = Fur Trade Outpost
| image1      = [[File:Fort Hall Location Map Text.svg|270px]]
| caption1    = 
| headerstyle = background-color: khaki
| label2      = Constructed:
| data2       = {{start date and age|1834}}
| label3      = Company built:
| data3       = [[Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth]]
| label4      = Location:
| data4       = [[Fort Hall, Idaho]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| label5      = Continent:
| data5       = [[North America]]
| label6      = Later Ownership:
| data6       = 1837: [[Hudson's Bay Company]]<br>1846: [[United States Army]]
| label7      = Abandoned:
| data7       = By 1863
| below       = 
{{Infobox NRHP |embed=yes
| name = Fort Hall
| nrhp_type = nhl
| image = FortHallMarker.jpg
| image_size = 260px
| caption = Marker at the first Fort Hall site, 1958
| location = 11 mi. W of [[Fort Hall, Idaho|Fort Hall]], <br>[[Fort Hall Indian Reservation]]
| nearest_city = 
| locmapin = USA#Idaho
| area =
| built = {{start date and age|1834}}
| architect= 
| architecture= 
| designated_nrhp_type= January 20, 1961<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=197&ResourceType=Site |title=Fort Hall |access-date=February 7, 2008 |work=National Historic Landmarks Program |publisher=National Park Service |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920184456/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=197&ResourceType=Site |archive-date=September 20, 2012}}</ref>
| added = October 15, 1964

| refnum=66000306
}}	
{{Infobox NRHP |embed=yes
| name = Fort Hall Site <br>''Fort Hall (United States Army, 1873-1883)''
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| image =
| caption =
| nearest_city = [[Blackfoot, Idaho]]
| locmapin = Idaho#USA
| area = {{convert|160|acre}}
| built = {{start date and age|1870}}
| architect =
| architecture =
| added = November 21, 1974
| refnum = 74000732 	
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}}

'''Fort Hall''' was a [[Fortification|fort]] in the [[Western United States]] that was built in 1834 as a fur trading post by [[Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth]]. It was located on the [[Snake River]] in the eastern [[Oregon Country]], now part of present-day [[Bannock County, Idaho|Bannock County]] in southeastern [[Idaho]]. Wyeth was an inventor and businessman from [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], who also founded a post at [[Fort William (Oregon)|Fort William]], in present-day [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]], as part of a plan for a new trading and fisheries company. In 1837, unable to compete with the powerful British [[Hudson's Bay Company]], based at [[Fort Vancouver]], Wyeth sold both posts to it. Great Britain and the United States both operated in the [[Oregon Country]] in these years.

After being included in United States territory in 1846 upon settlement of the northern boundary with Canada, Fort Hall developed as an important station for emigrants through the 1850s on the [[Oregon Trail]]; it was located at the end of the common {{convert|500|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch from the [[Eastern United States|East]] shared by the three [[American frontier|far west]] [[emigrant trail]]s. Soon after Fort Hall, the Oregon and [[California Trail]]s diverged in northwesterly and southwesterly directions. An estimated 270,000 emigrants reached Fort Hall on their way west. The town of [[Fort Hall, Idaho|Fort Hall]] later developed {{convert|11|mi|0|spell=in}} to the east, and [[Pocatello, Idaho|Pocatello]] developed about {{convert|30|mi|-1|spell=in}} south on the [[Portneuf River (Idaho)|Portneuf River]].

In the 1860s, Fort Hall was the key post for the overland stage, mail and freight lines to the towns and camps of the mining frontier in the Pacific Northwest. In 1870, a New Fort Hall was constructed to carry out that function; it was located about 25 miles to the northeast. It protected stagecoach, mail and travelers to the Northwest.

Fort Hall is considered the most important trading post in the [[Snake River Plain|Snake River Valley]]. It was included within the [[Fort Hall Indian Reservation]] under the treaty of 1867. No building remains at either of its sites. The Old Fort Hall site was designated a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1961,<ref name="nhlsum"/> and the New Fort Hall site is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].