Earthquakes and Mountain Fog

Earthquakes and Mountain Fog (HM25J3)

Location: Oregon City, OR 97045 Clackamas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 21.864', W 122° 35.673'

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The First People and the Mountain

It must have been long long ago that the earth shook. Then they would get their wooden pans and buckets, they would turn them upside down there, and they would sing and make a racket. They would say in their singing,
Put by the side of the ground, the earth is shaking.
Put by the side of the ground, the earth is shaking.
Futhermore (sic) I do not know how at what there they were smoke-drying smelts. They heard shah, a noise made by the dried smelts rubbing against one another, it sounded. They looked up, the smelts were shaking as they hung from the drying rack. They said, "The ground is shaking."
When they saw the mountain, and fog (smoke) was rising from the mountains in the morning, they said, "The mountains are smoking like a person who is smoking a pipe."
By Victoria Howard, edited and translated from Clackamas Chinook by Melville Jacobs, Clackamas Chinook Texts, part 2.
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HM NumberHM25J3
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Placed ByEnd of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center
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Date Added Saturday, February 17th, 2018 at 7:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 531752 N 5023511
Decimal Degrees45.36440000, -122.59455000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 21.864', W 122° 35.673'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 21' 51.84" N, 122° 35' 40.38" W
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Area Code(s)503
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling North
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 1726 Washington St, Oregon City OR 97045, US
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