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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25K1_old-oregon-trail_Oregon-City-OR.html
Erected by
Willamette Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Portland, Oregon
1917
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25K0_gardens_Oregon-City-OR.html
"We pitched our tent... remaining at this camp for about one week, feasting on watermelons and good, fresh vegetables right from the garden, which are brought in by the Clackamas County farmers in great abundance." E.W. Conyers on arrival in Orego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JD_lot-whitcomb_Oregon-City-OR.html
Lot Whitcomb, proprietor of the town, gave two lots and an unfinished building that had cost him about $1,000 - the first Episcopal church building in Oregon.
His wife, Irene, suffered from asthma. Believing Oregon a healthy place, in 1847 L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JC_fishing-at-tumwater_Oregon-City-OR.html
Since time immemorial, Willamette Falls (Tumwater) has been an important fishing site for the Clowewalla (also known as the Willamette Tumwater) and Clackamas Chinook peoples. They controlled access to the falls through inter-tribal relationships …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JB_abigail-scott-duniway_Oregon-City-OR.html
"When woman's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world." — Abigail Scott Duniway, Path Breaking (1914)
The third in a family of fourteen, Abigail "Jenny" Scott traveled west in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25J5_sidney-w-moss_Oregon-City-OR.html
'It was two stories, 68 x 105, and was the first hotel west of the Rocky mountains." — Harvey K. Hines, An Illustrated History... (1893)
In 1842 Dr. Elijah White recruited over one hundred people to emigrate across the Oregon Trail. Sidney…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25J3_earthquakes-and-mountain-fog_Oregon-City-OR.html
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 gro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25IO_to-the-banks-of-the-willamette_Oregon-City-OR.html
"Past on twelve miles or more, took the (w)rong road and arrived at the Willammette bottoms about dark a little below the City." — Samuel Dexter Francis, October 14, 1852
In September and October, and early November the meadows at the j…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25IN_the-trail-of-tears_Oregon-City-OR.html
When she went shortly after to her American woman friend, she told her, "They are going to take you Indian people somewhere pretty soon now." She told her, "Do not leave anything. Take along all your things with you. Put your canoe away somewhere.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25IM_wagons_Oregon-City-OR.html
Letters in newspapers, emigrant guide-books, and word of mouth gave counsel on overland travel. Emigrants commonly used farm wagons - simple, well-made, and utilitarian. Many were home-made or commission-built by local wagon makers. Some had custo…