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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5IW_historic-viola-school_Estacada-OR.html
District #14 ? ? ? ? ? Built - 1894
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5I5_peter-skene-ogden-house_Oregon-City-OR.html
400 feet south of this marker stood the home ofPeter Skene OgdenChief Factor of Hudson's Bay Co. and rescuer of the survivors of the Whitman Massacre.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5I4_oregon-city-falls_Oregon-City-OR.html
Oregon City - once known as Willamette Falls - was early the site of an Indian salmon fishing village. The falls furnished the power for a lumber mill which began operation in 1842. A flour mill in 1844. A woolen mill in 1864 and the first paper m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5I2_larry-g-dahl_Oregon-City-OR.html
Born in Oregon CityJune 10, 1949Killed in ActionFebruary 23, 1971Vice President Ford of the United States of America awarded posthumously in the name of CongressThe Medal of Honorfor conspicuous gallantry & intrepidity in action at the risk of his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HS_oregon-city_Oregon-City-OR.html
Oregon City - supply point for pioneer emigrants was first located as a claim by Dr. John McLoughlin in 1829. The first provisional legislature of the Oregon Country was held here in 1843 and land and tax laws formulated. Oregon City was the capit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HR_dr-john-mcloughlin_Oregon-City-OR.html
Born in Riviere du Loup, Canada, October 19, 1784.
1824 Came to the Oregon Country as Chief Factor of the Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.
1829 Located his claim to the present site of Oregon City.
1845 Resigned his positi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HQ_eva-emery-dye_Oregon-City-OR.html
In memory of Eva Emery Dye and others who saved the McLoughlin House from demolition in 1909. The house was moved down Main Street and up Singer Hill to open as a museum on this location in 1910. Mrs. Dye was the author of "McLoughlin and Old Oreg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HL_mcloughlin-house_Oregon-City-OR.html
In the city he founded, in this house he built, lived Dr. John McLoughlin, 1846-57.
He won enduring fame for his generous and humane aid to early American settlers in the Oregon Country, as Chief Factor and Superintendent of the Hudson's Bay Co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5HK_dr-forbes-barclay_Oregon-City-OR.html
Dr. Forbes Barclay left Scotland in 1839 for Fort Vancouver (Washington) where he became chief physician for Hudson's Bay Company. He moved to Oregon City in 1850 where he practiced medicine for many years. He was one of Oregon City's early mayors…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5H4_joseph-l-meek_Oregon-City-OR.html
Born in Washington Co. Va., Meek leaves home at age 18, arriving in St. Louis in the fall of 1828. Meek signs on as a trapper with the Rocky Mtn. Fur Co., remaining in the Rockies until 1839.
1839 - 1843: Meek travels to the Willamette Valley a…