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Camp Adair

Posted on: October 4th, 2024 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

The US War Department selected 55,000 acres at this location for an infantry training site in 1941. Temporary quarters were constructed, and the site was dedicated as Camp Adair in 1942. Camp Adair was designed to train two divisions at the same time.

The camp was named after Lt. Henry R. Adair, a West Point graduate and Oregon pioneer descendant, killed in 1916 while serving with Gen. John Pershing on a …

Brownsville

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 …

Boone’s Landing

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 …

Boone’s Ferry

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 …

TIC Careers and Employment

Posted on: September 18th, 2024 in News & Press |

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Beaver Hill Mine

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 …

Beacon Rock

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 …

Balloon Bomb

Posted on: September 12th, 2024 in Historical Marker Details |

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 …

Baker

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 …

Aurora

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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