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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GG_historic-canemah-cemetery_Oregon-City-OR.html
In 1864 Absolom Hedges donated 1.91 acres for a cemetery. By 1865 the Canemah Cemetery Association was formed and received a deed. In 1883 the Rhinehart family donated a 30 ft. wide roadway to 5th Avenue. In 1914 the cemetery was surveyed and iron…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GF_canemah_Oregon-City-OR.html
Before the coming of the white immigration, the flat area above the falls was a native encampment called "Kanim" or "Canoe Place". In 1844 Absolom Hedges staked out a donation land claim and platted it in 1849 naming the area Falls City. The first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25GE_george-abernethys-historical-significance_Oregon-City-OR.html
George Abernethy who arrived at Willamette Falls in 1840 by ship, took a land claim that stretched from the Willamette River to Holcomb Hill. The neck of land that followed Abernethy Creek acrosss Green Point became known as Abernethy Green. Orego…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EY_laurel-hill_Rhododendron-OR.html
The pioneer road here detoured the Columbia River rapids and Mount Hood to the Willamette Valley. The road at first followed an old Indian trail. The later name was Barlow Road. Travel was difficult. Wagons were snubbed to trees by ropes on held b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EW_sumate-prairie_Government-Camp-OR.html
Imagine feeding your hungry children and skinny ox teams whottleberries here. Helping you spouse repair your tired wagon for tomorrow's dreaded drop down Laurel Hill. Rain clouds gather around Mount Hood's peak. More storms coming. And they say th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24EV_a-final-rest_Government-Camp-OR.html
In 1924 engineers construction the first Mt. Hood Highway discovered a gravesite here. The grave was marked with an old wooden wagon tongue buried beneath decades of overgrown brush. When they dug up the site, they found the remains of an emigrant…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24ER_disparite-bad-beyond-discription_Government-Camp-OR.html
This mountain pass in named for Samuel K. Barlow who opened the first wagon route over the Cascades in 1846 to complete the Oregon Trail. The route was far from easy. Emigrant Isom Cranfill (cabinet maker, farmer, and itinerant preacher) made the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24E9_samuel-kimbrough-barlow_Government-Camp-OR.html
There are two plaques mounted on a boulder.
Samuel Kimbrough Barlow
Oregon Pioneer from Kentucky
Built the first wagon road across
Cascade Mountains
passing this spot
1845 - 1846
The building of railways since has been of les…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24E8_the-oregon-trail_Rhododendron-OR.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24E7_emigrants-final-steps_Mount-Hood-Village-OR.html
In the shadow of the tall trees, a stream of travelers crossed ash flows, talus slopes and boggy wetlands along this last stretch of the trail. Some emigrants were forced to abandon their wagons with the death of livestock and walk, carrying thei…