Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Life Comes from the Land and Water Here stood the Hanis Coos village of Qaimisiich. Hanis Coos, and their Miluk Coos neighbors to the south, lived along Coos Bay, south to the Coquille River, and east to the Coast Range. Experts in a sustainable life, the Coos people hunted, fished, and gathered here for many centuries. They traded with other tribes to obtain goods they could not find locally, such …
Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
This is Oregon’s largest body of water, about 90,000 acres. Indians inhabiting its shores (“People of the Lake”) lived well on wild fowl, fish and wocus seeds. The first known white visitors (1825-26) were Hudson’s Bay trappers under Tom McKay and Finan McDonald. In 1846, while exploring here, John C. Fremont received news of the war with Mexico, which caused him to hasten around the northern end and back to …
Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
The old Yaquina Bay Llighthouse established in 1871 is the earliest aid to navigation standing within the range of the first recorded landfall made from a ship to the shores of the Pacific Northwest. Captain James Cook made this landfall on March 7, 1778. At noon he named Cape Foulweather. On account of the heavy weather he was compelled to stand out at sea at night and only approach the …
Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
A Pacific Railroad Survey party searching for a practicable route for a railroad to connect the Sacramento Valley with the Columbia River passed near this point bound north on August 20, 1855. Lieutenant R.S. Williamson headed the party with 2nd Lieutenant Henry I. Abbot second in command. Among the officers in the Army escort were Lieutenant Phil S. Sheridan and Lieutenant George Crook. Dr. J.S. Newberry was the Chief Scientist …
Posted on: November 13th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
This short trail leads to the Willamette Stone, the surveyor’s monument that is the point of origin for all public land surveys in Oregon and Washington. The landmark was established on June 4, 1851 by John B. Preston, Oregon’s first Surveyor General.
With increasing settlement and passage of the Donation Land Claim Act, the Oregon Territory desperately needed to extend the Public Land Survey System of 1785 that divided public lands …
Posted on: November 8th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
WILLAMETTE FALLS LOCKS still in use below this point-were opened on New Years Day, 1873, when the steamer Maria Wilkins became the first vessel to navigate up the west end of Willamette Falls. Farming and shipping interests had long sought to eliminate expensive portages around this age-old bar to navigation 26 miles above the mouth of the river. The initial project was completed by the Willamette Falls Canal and Locks …
Posted on: November 8th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
Was the site of an Indian salmon fishing village. The falls furnished the power for a lumber mill which began operation in 1842, a flour mill in 1844, a woolen mill in 1864 and the first paper mill in the Pacific Northwest in 1867. The first long-distance commercial electric power transmission in the United States was from this area in the City of Portland in 1889.
Location: West Linn View …
Posted on: November 6th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Willamette Post was established in December 1813, on a knoll just east of here, by the Montreal-based North West Company, close to the Kalapuyan village of Champeog. The two-room log cabin, also called Fort Kalapuya, was a place for trade and a depot for fur-trapping and hunting expeditions supplying the North West Company’s Fort George near the mouth of the Columbia River. The post was still standing in the late …
Posted on: November 6th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
John West was a self-made man. A native of Scotland, he settled on the lower ColumbiaRiver near this spot in the early 1850s after trying his luck in the goldfields of California. West built and operated sawmills, ran a general store and post office, built and managed a salmon cannery, developed and improved canning machinery, and exported lumber. He also exported canned salmon around the globe and left his name …
Posted on: November 6th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Wallowa Lake fills a depression that was formerly occupied by a great river of ice that flowed out of the high Wallowa Mountains to the South. This Glacier Reached its greatest size in the late Pleistocene age about 12 to 40 thousand years ago. As it flowed out onto the valley floor, the glacier built great piles of rock debris around its edges, called moraines. When the ice melted away, …
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