Posted on: September 16th, 2011 in Slider |
Oregon is renowned for its magnificent trees. Oregon Travel Experience’s Heritage Tree Program is the first state-sponsored program of its kind in the nation. Every tree has special significance. Come visit them all—or listen to an audio tour.
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Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Audio Tours, Historical Marker Details |
Subject: Baker City is recognized for its place in the early transportation system for gold discovery.
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 …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
Subject: Site of a Christian co-operative founded by Dr. Wilhelm Keil.
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.
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
Subject: Homestead of Jesse Applegate, pioneer, statesman, and philosopher.
Jesse applegate 1811-1888
Pioneer, statesman, philosopher. Leader of migration to Oregon in 1843. Leader of Provisional Government of Oregon in 1844-1849. First Surveyor General in 1844. Trailblazer, Fort Hall, Idaho, to Willamette Valley, in 1846. Member of Constitutional Convention for State of Oregon in 1857. Settled here in 1849, one-half mile west of this spot. His house was scene of first Court …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
The Southern Emigrant Route
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 …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
Subject: Before dam construction on the Columbia River, the falls were ancient fishing grounds of all the Indian tribes of the middle Columbia River area.
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 …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
Subject: Describes the seasonal round of gathering food and plant material by the ancestors of the Paiute Tribe.
American Indians have occupied portions of the northern Great Basin for 10,000 years. The region’s earliest inhabitants lived in caves and camps along the shores of glacial lakes and marshes. This area was the homeland of the ‘Wada-tika’ (wada seed eaters), a band of the Northern Paiute Indians. They often …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
Dwight Huss, an automobile engineer from Detroit, made automotive history here June 20, 1905 when his car, “Old Scout,” became the first documented car to cross the Cascade Mountains from east to west. Huss was competing in America’s First Transcontinental Automobile Race against Percy McGargle, which departed New York City on May 8, 1905 in separate 7-Horsepower, 1904 Oldsmobile Curved-Dash Runabouts. “Old Scout” was also the fastest automobile …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
OREGON GEOLOGY
Abert Rim is a spectacular example of a fault scarp-look behind you [at the marker site] and to the east to see a steep cliff produced by periodic vertical movement of a geological fault. The 30-mile-long, 2,500-foot-high rim was created over millennia by great blocks tilting and moving in a region where the earth’s crust is thinning or stretching.
The fault that produced Abert Rim is one of many …
Posted on: September 12th, 2011 in Historical Marker Details |
Subject: George Abernethy was the first Provisional Governor of the Oregon Country.
From 1845 to 1849, George Abernethy was the first Provisional Governor of the Oregon Country, which extended from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountains and from California to Northern British Columbia. After arriving in Oregon in 1840 as part of the Methodist Mission at Champoeg, he was involved in a series of meetings that ended in the …
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