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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21KW_the-oregon-trail_Baker-City-OR.html
Wagons and cattle of the Great Migration, led by Marcus Whitman in 1843, descended Sept. 25 into Lone Pine valley.
After nearly a month of travel over the hot dry Snake river plains from Fort Hall near Pocatello, Idaho, the cool climate and lush …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21KV_baker-city-chinese-history_Baker-City-OR.html
Chinese were prominent working on railroads & gold mines in Baker County. The Baker City Chinatown was located by Powder River on Auburn Avenue where a Joss House was built in 1883. Chinese gardens on the east bank of Powder River between Springar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21KT_chinese-shrine_Baker-City-OR.html
This Chinese prayer house was used to honor the departing spirits by burning incense and prayer papers. The prayer papers were brown paper with some million little pinholes & pushed through the alter window. In traditional Chinese religion the man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21KN_the-lone-tree-of-the-oregon-trail_Baker-City-OR.html
Early Oregon Trail emigrants crested the south flank of Flagstaff Hill and, with the Blue Mountains looming to the west, saw a solitary tree in the valley below. Called l'arbre seul (the lone tree) by French-Canadian fur trappers, this large tree,…
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21KJ_the-lure-of-gold_Baker-City-OR.html
Beginning in 1843, thousands of Oregon Trail emigrants trekked through this region toward new lives in the West. This epic journey indelibly etched the landscape with wagon ruts, such as those near by. When Henry Griffin, a prospector from Califor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21KI_ruts-of-the-oregon-trail_Baker-City-OR.html
Of the 2170 miles of the Oregon Trail, approximately 300 miles of ruts remain. Swales created by thousands of wagon wheels and the trampling of draft animals are deep in some areas, shallow in other places. Much of the trail has disappeared due to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21K8_flynn-building_Baker-City-OR.html
The central two-story portion of their building was constructed in 1910. In the 1940s, single-story wings of reinforced concrete were added to both sides of the original structure.
In its early years, the building housed the Chas. I. Flynn and C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21K7_shoemaker-building_Baker-City-OR.html
William Shoemaker, a partner in a Baker City wholesale grocery and grain business, built this building in 1906. Before moving to Baker City, Shoemaker had been in business at Rock Creek, a small community in north Baker Valley. He built and operat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21K5_antlers-hotel_Baker-City-OR.html
In the early days of the 20th Century, the Antlers Hotel was a bustling three-story hotel which boasted a fine restaurant and bar. The hotel had an elevator. The upper corridors were naturally lighted by "light wells" and skylights.
I…