The Baker Cabin

The Baker Cabin (HM25KM)

Location: Oregon City, OR 97045 Clackamas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 23.392', W 122° 29.796'

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Horace Baker emigrated from Illinois along the Oregon Traill in 1846 and married fellow emigrant Jane Hatten in 1852. The Bakers claimed 640 acres and built this cabin by 1856. The Baker Cabin is one of the oldest log structure in the state, and it is the only known log cabin with a cantilever supported loft and exterior stairway built in Oregon during the covered wagon era. The Baker Cabin was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Horace Baker was an entrepreneur and "jack-of-all-trades." Besides farming, Baker built and installed wooden pumps around the local area and in 1872 he built and operated a slack-cable ferry on the Clackamas River. Rock quarried from this land by Baker during the 1870s was used to built the Willamette Falls Locks near Oregon City, Portland's Pioneer Courthouse, the Portland Hotel, and the Tillamook Lighthouse.
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HM NumberHM25KM
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Placed ByOregon Trail Coordinating Council (OTCC)
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Date Added Monday, February 19th, 2018 at 4:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 539405 N 5026384
Decimal Degrees45.38986667, -122.49660000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 23.392', W 122° 29.796'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 23' 23.52" N, 122° 29' 47.76" W
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Area Code(s)503
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 14891-14999 S Hattan Rd, Oregon City OR 97045, US
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