Boone's Ferry

Boone's Ferry (HM25LW)

Location: Aurora, OR 97002 Clackamas County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 16.265', W 122° 46.522'

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During the period of Oregon's Provisional Government ( 1841-1849), residents traveled by Indian trails, water courses, or on privative rough-hewn wagon roads etched by emigrant settlers. During the days to the Territorial Government (1849-1859), and long before the State Highway Commission was established in 1917, travel and commercial transportation was often the result of ambitious, enterprising Oregonians such as the Alphonso Boone family of Clackamas County.

Alphonso Boone, grandson of the frontiersman Daniel Boone, emigrated to Oregon with 10 children in 1846. The family established homesteads on the Willamette River between present-day Oregon City and Butteville. By 1847, the Boones established a ferry crossing on the Willamette near this marker. and eldest son Jesse began clearing a path through Marion, Washington, Clackamas, and Multnomah Counties known today as Boones Ferry Road.

Jesse Boone operated the ferry until his death in 1872. The ferry continued in private hands for several years until Clackamas County, and finally, the State of Oregon assumed control in the early 1900s. Boones Ferry crossed the Willamette for 107 years carrying thousands of horses, cows, buggies, automobiles, and pedestrians. By the early 1950s, the cable-drawn ferry 12 cars and made up to 300 crossings per day. The ferry was decommissioned



in 1954, shortly after completion of the Boone Bridge across the Willamette River.
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HM NumberHM25LW
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Placed ByOregon Department of Transportation
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Date Added Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 at 7:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 517620 N 5013089
Decimal Degrees45.27108333, -122.77536667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 16.265', W 122° 46.522'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 16' 15.9" N, 122° 46' 31.32" 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 24300 I-5, Aurora OR 97002, US
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