Roop's Fort, also known as Roop's Trading Post, Fort Defiance, and Roop House, is a historic building in

Susanville, California Susanville (formerly known as Rooptown) (, ''bush creek country'')Simmons, W. S., Morales, R., Williams, V., & Camacho, S. (1997). Honey Lake Maidu Ethnogeography of Lassen County, California . Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropolog ...

. The building, which was built in 1854 by

Isaac Roop Isaac Newton Roop (March 13, 1822 – February 14, 1869) was an American politician, pioneer, and member of the Whig Party. In 1859, he was the first elected (provisional) governor of the newly-proposed Nevada Territory. Early life Roop was bo ...

, was the first building built by white settlers in Lassen County. The fort was originally a trading post for westbound migrants and was the first post west of

Fort Hall Fort Hall was a 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 in southeastern ...

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. The building also served as the capitol of the short-lived

Nataqua Territory The Nataqua Territory was a short-lived, unofficial territory of the United States. It consisted of a portion of what is now northeastern California and northwestern Nevada. Nataqua Territory was the first incarnation of the proposed "Jefferson ( ...

, a territory created in 1856 to avoid California tax collectors. The territory was incorporated into

Roop County, Nevada Roop County, known until 1862 as Lake County, was a county of Nevada Territory in the United States from 1861 until 1864. It was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of Nevada. In 1864 it was succeeded by Lassen County, Californi ...

, named for Isaac Roop, in 1861. California and Nevada entered into a border dispute known as the

Sagebrush War The Sagebrush War (also known as the Boundary War, the War of Injunctions or the Roop County War) was an armed conflict between the California county of Plumas County, California, Plumas and the now-defunct Nevada county of Roop County, Nevada, Roo ...

over the Susanville area in 1863, and Roop's Fort served as a fort for the Nevadans during the skirmish. California won the war, and Roop's Fort became part of Lassen County in 1864. It is a

California Historical Landmark A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in the U.S. state of California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance. Criteria Historical significance is determined by meetin ...

(#76), and it was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1974.

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* * Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California Houses completed in 1854 Historic American Buildings Survey in California California Historical Landmarks Houses in Lassen County, California National Register of Historic Places in Lassen County, California {{California-NRHP-stub

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