Posted on: October 4th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Long before the first pioneer settlers arrived here in the 1840’s, this area was occupied by the ancient Mound Builders and then the Kalapuya Indians. The relative ease of finding food in the valley made the Kalapuya vulnerable to intruders, including other tribes, because they did not need to fight or go very far for food. At the time of Lewis and Clark, about two thousand were distributed in forty …
Posted on: October 4th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Many of Oregon’s early transportation routes resulted from the efforts of enterprising pioneers like the Boone family of Clackamas County. In 1846 Alphonso Boone, grandson of Daniel Boone, emigrated to Oregon via the Applegate Trail with his large family. By 1847, using local Tuality Indians as oarsmen, they established Boone’s Ferry near this marker. The thriving community of Boone’s Landing, genesis of Wilsonville, quickly sprang up on the river’s north …
Posted on: October 4th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
During the period of Oregon’s Provisional Government (1841-1849), residents traveled by Indian trails, water courses, or on primitive rough-hewn wagon roads etched by emigrant settlers. During the days of the Territorial Government (1849-1859), and long before the State Highway Commission was established in 1914, travel and commercial transportation was often the result of ambitious, enterprising Oregonians such as the Alphonso Boone family of Clackamas County. Alphonso Boone, grandson of frontiersman …
Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
This is Beaver Slough- a resource gathering area and major travel corridor for the Hanis and Miluk people (Coos Bay estuary) and the Athabaskan speaking people (Coquille River). This was once Oregon’s only commercially developed coal region. Euro-Americans settled here in the 1850s. By 1893, the region’s first railroad ran alongside Beaver Slough, transporting coal to a hungry steam-power market. In 1895, 11 Black miners from West Virginia were recruited …
Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Beacon Rock is a monolith, the core of a young volcano that erupted around 57,000 years ago. It is claimed to be the second largest freestanding monolith in the world. Lewis and Clark named it Beacon Rock in 1805. Native peoples and Lewis and Clark recognized that Beacon Rock marked the last of the rapids on the Columbia River and the beginning of tidal influence from the Pacific Ocean, 150 …
Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
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Very near here, on a warm spring day in 1945, six people- a woman and five children- were killed by a Japanese “balloon bomb,” or Fugo. The party had arrived for a picnic when they discovered the deflated balloon. While they gathered around the strange device, it exploded. These were the only civilian casualties of the war within the continental US. The bombs were launched 6,000 miles away in japan …
Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
In October 1861, a group of prospectors in search of the mythical Blue Bucket Mine, made camp on a creek six miles southwest of here. That evening, Henry Griffin discovered gold in the gulch which bears his name. That started a stampede which continued for years. In 1862, Baker County was created and named for Colonel E.D. Baker, U.S. Senator from Oregon. The present town of Baker was an important …
Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Dr. Wilhelm Keil founded here a Christian co-operative colony patterned after his colony at Bethel, Missouri. Musicians of the settlement made it widely famous. After Dr. Keil’s death in 1877 the communal enterprise was dissolved.
Location: Corner of Liberty at 3rd Street, Aurora, OR
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Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
The first emigrant train over the “Southern Route” including more than fifty wagons under the leadership of Captain Levi Scott and David Goff, left the Oregon Trail at Fall Creek or Raft River on the Snake River, August 10, 1846. The Klamath River was crossed eight miles upstream from this sign on October 4, 1846. This trail, roughly 680 miles, took fifty-six days of travel. Captain Scott, leading the second …
Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |
Before a network of dams controlled the Columbia River it was often a raging torrent. Here at Wyam Falls, known today as Celilo Falls, a vertical drop of more than 20 feet and sheer basalt bluffs on either shore forced the river into seething, boiling rapids.
From time immemorial this region comprised the fishing grounds of all Indian tribes of the middle Columbia River area. Early Indians speared huge salmon while …
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