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Oregon City Falls

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Notes uses of site ranging from early Indian salmon fishing village to first long-distance hydroelectric power generation in the United States.
Oregon City – once known as Willamette Falls – was early 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 …

Oregon City

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Honors Dr. McLoughlin, pioneers, early Oregon government and many firsts in Oregon.
Oregon City – supply point for pioneer emigrants was first located as a claim by Dr. John McLoughlin in 1829. The first provisional legislature of the Oregon Country was held here in 1843 and land and tax laws formulated. Oregon City was the capital of the Oregon Territory from 1845-1852. The first Protestant church (Methodist) west of the Rocky …

Ogden, Peter Skene

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Commemorates the far-ranging chief trapper of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
This Park is named for Peter Skene Ogden, 1793-1854. In the fall of 1825, Ogden led a Hudson’s Bay Company trapping party on the first recorded journey into Central Oregon, crossing the country to the north and east into the Crooked River Valley not far above here. He was in the vicinity again in 1826 bound for the Harney Basin …

Ogden, Peter Skene

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Peter Skene Ogden, leader of five expeditions into ‘Snake Country.’
Peter Skene Ogden, leading a party of Hudson’s Bay Company trappers, camped near here on October 10, 1828. On this Ogden’s fifth and final expedition into the ‘Snake Country,’ he started on September 22, from Fort Nez Perce (Walla Walla). From here, passing Alvord Lake, he went south to the Humboldt River and thence last to Great Salt Lake, first reached …

Nez Perce

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Homeland of the Nez Perce Chief Joseph.
Wallowa Valley, summer homeland of the Joseph Band Nez Perce, was part of the expansive Nez Perce reservation established by the treaty of 1855. Upon discovery of gold in the region, the U.S. eliminated the reservation in the Wallowas in 1863. The Joseph Band held on until 1877 when, under pressure from increasing white settlement, they were ordered to abandon their ancestral homeland. Violent …

Nesmith, James W

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:James Nesmith, a leader in early Oregon government, lived near this site.
PIONEER AND STATEMAN
James W. Nesmith, born in New Brunswick, Canada on July 23, 1820, was among the first emigrants to trek the Oregon Trail in 1843. He filed a land claim near present day Monmouth in 1844, and the following year took part in the formation of Oregon’s Provisional Government. Nesmith was elected to the Territorial Legislature in 1847, …

Meek, Joseph L

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:The land claim of Meek, mountain man, who helped found the Oregon Provisional Government.
This marks the land claim of Joseph L. Meek, famed and unlettered ‘mountain man,’ who arrived in 1840 after driving from Fort Hall to Walla in the first wagon on that part of the Oregon Trail. He was a founder of the Provisional Government; served as the first sheriff, the first marshal, the first census taker. He …

Meacham

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Originally Lee’s Encampment, later site of the Mountain House. Honored by visit of President Harding in 1923.
HISTORIC OREGON TRAIL
First known as Lee’s Encampment, from establishment of a Troop Camp by Major H.A.G. Lee in 1844. A.B. and Harvey Meacham operated famous Mountain House here which gave the town its present name. In later years a famous railroad eating house. The Log Cabin, became nationally known under the supervision of Grandma …

McLoughlin, Dr. John

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Dr. John McLoughlin was the Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company and founder of Oregon City.
DR. JOHN McLOUGHLIN 1784-1857
Chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, philanthropist, and founder of Oregon City. The land on the east bank of the Willamette River at the falls was claimed by Dr. McLoughlin and the Hudson’s Bay Co. in 1828-29. First called Willamette Falls, the town was platted in 1842 …

McKay, Thomas

Posted on: September 25th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Thomas McKay, Hudson’s Bay Company fur trader and operative, died near here.
‘One of the Oregon Country’s most picturesque fur-traders, Thomas McKay, is buried near Scappoose. He was a daring leader, famous storyteller and could drive a nail with a rifle ball. A Canadian, he arrived with Astorians as a teenage boy; served with North West Company, became a clerk with the Hudson’s Bay Company, established a grist mill at Champoeg. …