Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "One of the first moves of the new government has been the recognition of the Gaelic language. This has been used by a minority of the people but it is the language of those, who, centuries ago possessed the land and who, like the Welsh and the Scotch Highlanders have been driven back into the rough unproductive hill sections. It is officially on a par with the English and all government signs and literature, like this sign over a Dublin post office are printed in both languages."
This house at Astoria was once occupied as a residence by Ezra Fisher, a missionary. On March 9, 1847, John M. Shively was appointed postmaster for Astoria and soon afterwards this building became the first U.S. postoffice west of the Rocky Mountains.
