A Final Rest

A Final Rest (HM24EV)

Location: Government Camp, OR 97028 Clackamas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 16.932', W 121° 42.006'

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For One Pioneer Woman, the Oregon Trail Ended Here

In 1924 engineers construction the first Mt. Hood Highway discovered a gravesite here. The grave was marked with an old wooden wagon tongue buried beneath decades of overgrown brush. When they dug up the site, they found the remains of an emigrant woman. After reburial, a cross was placed in honor of this unnamed pioneer.

The son of Steven Coalman (former Barlow Toll Road Superintendent) recalls: "My father remembered meeting a man who had just buried his wife. He buried her in a wagon box made of the wagon, and made a crude fence around the grave. She had been very sick, and they had camped there several days before she died. The man had two small children, a boy and a girl, both under five years of age."


As you travel in comfort over the formidable Cascade Range, think about the hardships and heartaches pioneer families endured in pursuit of "the promised land."
Would you have been so bold?
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HM NumberHM24EV
Series This marker is part of the Daughters of the American Revolution series
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Placed ByMt. Hood National Forest, U.S. Forest Service
Marker ConditionNo reports yet
Date Added Sunday, January 7th, 2018 at 1:03pm PST -08:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 601947 N 5015121
Decimal Degrees45.28220000, -121.70010000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 16.932', W 121° 42.006'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 16' 55.92" N, 121° 42' 0.36000000000001" W
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Area Code(s)503
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling East
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Pioneer Woman's Grave Trail #485, Government Camp OR 97028, US
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