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Oregon's Recent Past Oregon’s Recent Past: North Willamette Valley, Portland, Columbia River, Mt. Hood. Written by RW. Faulkner Recent Photos by RW. Faulkner & MS. Faulkner ©= RW Faulkner 5/17/2018 All Rights Reserved First Printing August 2018 ISBN: 978-0-9983622-6-7 About the Cover Above Left Front Cover Above Right Back Cover Top Photo: Mt. Hood by FH Shogren, perhaps taken Top Photo: Clive E. Long, a Portland printer, near NW Thurman Street, Portland OR. Photo was & perhaps Clayton Van Riper of Dayton Ohio, featured in the 1905 Lewis & Clark Souvenir rest while climbing Mt. Hood, August 16, 1907. Program, (LC), titled, “Snow-Capped Mt. Hood, Seen Map: Copy of map of the northern Willamette Across The Exposition City,” & described by Rinaldo Valley. Original traced/drawn on tissue paper. M. Hall as, “Not every day may Mt. Hood be seen at It was used by pioneer Dr. Marcus Hudson its best, for clouds ever hover ‘round it, but the White to navigate, soon after his arrival in1891. constant watcher is frequently rewarded by seeing it (Found in a small notebook with most entries stand forth clearly & glisten in the sunlight as a dating 1892-1895, but map could be from mountain of silver. ...50 miles east of Portland by air 1891-1897.) line & 93 by shortest route, this favorite proudly rears its head 11,225 feet heavenward, thousands of feet above every neighboring object. It is one of the most notable peaks in the West, serving as a guide post to Lewis & Clark on their memorable trip of exploration to the coast in 1805-06, & later to the pioneers who hastened on to Western Oregon....” Lower Photo Mt. Hood from Washington Park, Portland Oregon, by Marc S. Faulkner, (MSF) 2013. On left is 24 story 1000 Broadway building known as “Ban Roll-on Building” designed by Portland architectural firm BORA, for Portland born theater chain mogul Tom Moyer. It opened in 1991, replacing the Broadway movie theatre that opened 1926, demolished 1988. A cinema theater is included in the Ban Roll-on building. Above Right Back Cover Table of Contents Creation of Scenic Treasures & Looming Barriers 3 Discovered by t’kope man 7 Early Exploration 7 The Oregon Trail 10 Columbia River Route 11 1845 Trail Blazers: Meek & Barlow 12 Steamboats 18 Ferries & Jesse Boone 19 Above: Columbia River Gorge, with Then Came Trains 19 Multnomah Falls behind the fellow on right. (KB) 1903. Early Settlements in The Valley 20 Fort Calipuyaw, Willamette Mission, Champoeg 20 Oregon City 23 Salem 27 Canby 30 McMinnville 31 Tualatin 34 The Game Changer: Villard & Union Station 36 Above: Columbia River’s Celilo Falls, Oregon City Photos: (MHW) photographer & date unknown. Right: Views of Oregon City, 2017. Falls pictured left can be seen in top photo on right Above: Willamette Falls, Oregon City “visitors in Oregon will hear little praise of the falls of the Willamette.... The volume of the river is enormous, & it thunders down the cliffs in choking masses in the center of the fall, while at its sides it makes numerous detached cascades & stairways of gleaming snow & crystal.” Kiser Bros. 1903. Left: Willamette Falls Locks, with Oregon City in background, stairs up cliff barely visible, 1888? Portland 40 A: Waterfront & Bridges 43 B: Burnside Area 51 C: City Center 64 D: South Center & West Hills 71 E: East Portland, Home to Grocery Store & Hospitals 83 Hidden Spaces 96 Pettygrove Park 97 Lovejoy Fountain 98 Lofty Places 99 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition 99 Washington Park 105 Lofty Mt. Tabor 110 Irresistible Rocky Butte 111 Today is Portland’s Recent Past 112 Portland Waterfront Photos: Above: City Center viewed from Eastbank Esplanade, behind Oregon Convention. Center.(RWF) 2017 Above: a) Probably a White Collar steamer at Portland, by Clive Long, (CL) 1906-1915; b) Sailing ships docked at Portland, steamboat traveling toward Columbia, (UpCl) 1902 Above: 1890 map with 2) Steele Bridge; H) Holladay Hotel; E) Eastbank Esplanade; S) Sullivan’s Gulch; T) Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Above, 2017: a) Oregon Convention Center. Bell Circle; b) East side Willamette River, with Convention Center. twin spires & I-5 between Conv. Ctr. & River; c) Sullivan’s Gulch (right of (b). Portland Photos from Book Section D Above: Portland Heights Cable Car Trestle, date Above the former Trestle, looking east, from above uncertain; Highway 26 tunnel, (RWF) 2018. Book Section E includes some unique phots of NE Portland, Mt. Tabor neighborhood and stories about life there in early 1900s Above: The early days of Vorpahl Grocery that remained on NE Glisan Street for decades..Owner Above: Around 1915, boy left sits on sidewalk, Fred Vorpahl and wife Mary in lower photo. now part of Providence Portland Medical Center. His father was a pioneer doctor. The Mighty Columbia 116 Lower Columbia 117 Astoria 118 Westport Ferry 119 Sauvie Island 120 Government Island 121 Middle & Upper Columbia 122 The Columbia River Gorge 123 Multnomah Falls 126 Beacon Rock 129 Garrison & Cascade Rapids 130 Dams: Another Game Changer 130 Bonneville Dam 132 The Fish Sage 133 Eagle Creek 135 Cascade Locks 138 Hood River 139 Memaloose 141 East of Memaloose Island The Dalles 143 Celilo Falls 145 Celilo Village 146 Arlington 148 Boardman 149 New Game Changers 151 Columbia River: An entirely different river before dams. Above: “Up the Columbia” map, 1902 Above: Celilo Falls 1903, Below same 2017 Above top left: “1,000 tons of great Chinook Salmon were taken daily” Kiser Bros., 1903;Other pics above: Salmon seen from Bonneville dam 2003, Bonneville view room & fish ladder, 2017. Mountain Journeys 153 Cascade Range 153 Essentials 154 Mt. Hood 155 Day Trippin’ Mt. Hood Loop 156 Government Camp 157 Climbing 157 The Trek to the Climb & Cloud Cap In 160 Skiing 164 Timberline Lodge 165 Multopor Mountain & Skibowl 166 Nearby Ski Resorts 166 Hiking, Camping, Fishing & 167 Logging 169 When Wild Animals Are All Around 171 Sources 172 Mt. Hood photos include views of climbers, their equipment and clothing 1902 & 1908. Skis & poles (right) used about 1930s. Above Timberline Lodge, spring 1960.
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