Puget's Sound Agricultural Co

PUGET'S SOUND AGRICULTURAL COMPANY (PSAC) was established in 1839, separate from but affiliated with the HBC to engage in AGRICULTURE and stock raising (see CATTLE INDUSTRY) in the Columbia District of the HBC's fur-trading empire. It was expected that company farms would produce a variety of crops along with wool, hides and tallow for Russian settlements to the north and for export to Hawaii and Great Britain. Initially farms were located at Nisqually and Cowlitz in what is now Washington...

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