Exact Point

Exact Point (53˚08'00" 132˚24'00" NE side of Chaatl I, Skidegate Channel, QCI). When news leaked out in 1851 that gold-bearing quartz had been found at Mitchell Inlet on NW Moresby I, Capt Folger and the 22-m, 68-tonne schooner Exact rushed to the QCI from Portland, dropping off Seattle’s founding settlers en route at Alki Point in Puget Sd. A large group of Haida had arrived at the gold site before Folger, though, and were demanding exorbitant prices for the ore. Folger and his companions,...

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