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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25IL_medorem-crawford_Oregon-City-OR.html
"A few of us (went) to the Falls of Willamut where we found many people & considerable of business." Medorem Crawford, Journal, October 3, 1842
An emigrant of 1842, Medorem Crawford worked for nearly a decade hauling freight around Willamette…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25IG_clackamas-chinook_Oregon-City-OR.html
About four miles below Oregon City the Klackamass enters the Walhamettee: and, seated below the banks at its mouth, I saw a party of Indians of the Klackamass tribe, and I put ashore for the purpose of taking a sketch of them.
They were busy gam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25H7_coyote-creates-willamette-falls_Oregon-City-OR.html
"Let us make a waterfall across the river." Meadowlark said to Coyote. So they made a rope by twisting young hazel shoots.
Holding one end of the rope, Meadowlark went on one side of the Willamette River; holding the other end, coyote went on th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25H0_coyote-creates-willamette-falls_Oregon-City-OR.html
Coyote came to that place around Oregon City and found the people there very hungry. The river was full of salmon, but they had no way to spear them in the deep water. Coyote decided he would build a big waterfall, so that the salmon would come to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GV_the-confederate-tribes-of-grande-ronde-today_Oregon-City-OR.html
The Clowewalla (also known as the Willamette Tumwater) and Clackamas Chinooks were relocated to the Grand Ronde Reservation under the Treaty with the Kalapuya, Etc. 1855 (also known as the Willamette Valley Treaty).
The Clowewalla joined other…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GU_oregon_Oregon-City-OR.html
"We claim that country - for what? To make the wilderness blossom as the rose, to establish laws, to increase, multiply, and subdue the earth..." — John Quincy Adams, Congressional Globe, February 9, 1846
Arguing that God had manifestly de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GT_dr-john-mcloughlin_Oregon-City-OR.html
"He stood among his pioneer contemporaries like towering old (Mount) Hood ... a born leader of men." — Willard H Res, description of John McLoughlin during speech, 1879
His personality was measured in patience, generosity, determination,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GM_willamette-falls-circa-1880_Oregon-City-OR.html
When travelers arrived at the End of the Oregon Trail, they found Willamette Falls, a natural wonder that attracted both those early settlers and the Native Americans who settled here centuries earlier. For the traditional peoples, the main attrac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GH_dr-john-mcloughlin_Oregon-City-OR.html
Chief Factor, 1821-1845, and Superintendent of the Columbia Department, 1824-1821, of the Hudson's Bay Company, laid claim to and took possession of the Site of Oregon City in 1829.
In 1842 he had the site surveyed, and subsequently dedicated th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GG_historic-canemah-cemetery_Oregon-City-OR.html
In 1864 Absolom Hedges donated 1.91 acres for a cemetery. By 1865 the Canemah Cemetery Association was formed and received a deed. In 1883 the Rhinehart family donated a 30 ft. wide roadway to 5th Avenue. In 1914 the cemetery was surveyed and iron…