News - Page 28 of 30 - Oregon Travel Information Council

Cattle Drives

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject: The old Oregon Cattle Trail along which up to 100,000 head of cattle were driven to eastern buyers.
After the close of the Sioux and Paiute Indian Wars the ranchers of Wyoming and Montana discouraged in their attempts to fatten the Texas Longhorn, turned to Oregon for their cattle. During the spring cattlemen and their cowboys arrived daily from the Rocky Mountain Area to purchase herds which had been assembled …

Canyon Creek

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject: Route of trappers, Applegate Trail, stage coaches and freight wagons.
The narrow gorge of Canyon Creek has long served as a travel corridor. Native Americans likely trekked this canyon for thousands of years. Alexander McLeod of the Hudson’s Bay Company provided the first written account of the route in 1829, while traveling from Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River to California’s central valley. The U.S. Exploring Expedition, under Lt. George Emmons, …

Cannons on the Beach

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

History in the Sand
Cannon Beach was named after a carronade (a short, smoothbore, cast iron naval cannon) found buried in the sand nearby. The cannon broke free of hte USS Shark’s deck during a shipwreck at the mouth of the Columbia River on September 10, 1846.
Recovering th First Cannon
Shortly after the wreck, a USS Shark crewmember learned from Tillamook Indians that part of the ship’s deck washed ashore south of …

Camp Adair

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Subject: Site where military divisions were trained during World War ll
The US War Department ulimately 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.
CAPTION #1:
The camp was named after Lt. Henry R. Adair, a West Point graduate and Oregon pioneer descendant, …

Brownsville

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject:Describes the ancient beginnings of Brownsville and its evolution of names.
A TOWN WITH ANCIENT BEGINNINGS AND MANY NAMES
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 …

River Highway

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Native peoples have resided along this river since time immemorial. The river and adjacent lands have provided a bountiful life and a highway for extensive trade and travel. In the 1700s, European and American seafarers began plying the Pacific coast, seeking commerce, mapping, and claiming places along the way. In October 1792, HMS Chatham entered this river. Lieutenant Broughton, ship captain, led the party in small boats upriver to this …

Boone’s Landing

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject: The establishment of Boone’s Ferry, Boone’s Landing (the precurser to the City of Wilsonville) and Boone’s Ferry Road.
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 …

Boone’s Ferry

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Subject: Tells the history of the Boones Ferry across the Willamette River near this site.
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 1917, travel and commercial transportation was often the result of ambitious, enterprising Oregonians such …

Beacon Rock

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |

Beacon Rock

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 free-standing monolith in the world. Lewis and Clark named it Beacon Rock in 1805. Native tribes 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, …

Balloon Bomb

Posted on: September 19th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |

Subject: Japanese “Balloon Bombs” used in World War II, caused the only casualties of the war within the continental US
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 …