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"Welcome to Mosier", Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken March 6, 2010.
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Mosier ...
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Mosier, Oregon, as seen from downstream.
View from the Mark O. Hatfield State Trail.
Image taken September 18, 2005.
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Columbia River looking downstream towards Mosier, Oregon.
View from along the Historic Columbia River Highway upstream of Mosier, Oregon.
Eighteenmile Island can be seen on the left just off the Oregon shore.
The location of Mosier, Oregon, is located on the left.
The basalts of the Bingen Gap are visible on the right.
Image taken March 20, 2004.
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Early Mosier ...
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Mosier began in 1853 or 1854 when J.H. Mosier settled on a claim near the mouth of Mosier Creek. Mosier ran a "rest area" stage station for weary travelers. The Mosier Post Office was established in 1884 and the town was incorporated in 1914.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, show a Jane and Heirs of Jonah H. Mosier being issued a land title on October 15, 1873, for 258.9 acres of parts of T2N R11E Sections 1 and 2, under the 1850 "Oregon-Donation Act"; A Jonah H. Mosier was issued a land title on July 25, 1892, for 93.53 acres of parts of T2N R11E Section 1, under the 1820 "Sale-Cash Entry"; and a Jonah H. Mosier was issued a land title on August 14, 1893, for 31.2 acres of parts of T2N R11E, under the 1820 "Sale-Cash Entry".
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Mosier Valley Post Office, Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken May 4, 2011.
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Mosier in 1940 ...
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From the Oregon State Archives "A 1940 Journey Across Oregon":
"MOSIER, 118.1 m. (95 alt., 192 pop.), at the confluence of Mosier Creek
and the Columbia River, is in a small fruit growing section well known for
its apple cider. The MOSIER TUNNELS, 119.5 m., one 261 feet and the other
60 feet long, often referred to as the Twin Tunnels, penetrate a
promontory more than 250 feet above the river. West of this point the
contrast between the barren, semi desert contours of eastern Oregon and
the lushness of the Pacific Slope becomes apparent.
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Mosier Syncline ...
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The Mosier Syncline is the lowpoint between the Bingen Anticline to the west, and the Ortley Anticline to the east.
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Views around Mosier ...
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Mosier Market.
Image taken May 13, 2007.
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First Christian Church, Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken June 27, 2009.
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Mosier's First Christian Church was dedicated October 31, 1909.
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Building, Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken June 27, 2009.
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Building of the Mosier Trading Company, one of the first buisinesses to take space in downtown Mosier in the late 1800s.
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Mosier "Route 30" Cafe.
Image taken September 18, 2005.
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Mosier "Route 30" Cafe.
Image taken May 13, 2007.
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Mosier Fruit Growers building, Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken May 4, 2011.
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Lewis's Woodpecker, Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken April 25, 2010.
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Mosier Totem, carved by Jeff Stewart.
Image taken May 13, 2007.
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Mosier Totem, carved by Jeff Stewart.
Image taken September 18, 2005.
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Eagle, Mosier Totem.
Image taken September 18, 2005.
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East Portal, Mosier Tunnels.
Image taken September 18, 2005.
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East Portal, Mosier Twin Tunnels.
Image taken September 18, 2005.
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The Mayerdale Place is located on the north side of the Historic Columbia River Highway between Mosier and Rowena Crest.
According to the "a2zgorge.info" website (2010) ...
"... In 1910 Mark Mayer established a home and a 230 acre apple orchard in Mosier. His home was a stately masion known as Mayerdale Place. In addition he also donated to Wasco county that the land that is now known as Mayer State Park, near Rowena, on the Columbia River."
[see also Mayer State Park]
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Mayerdale Place, view from the east, Mosier, Oregon.
Note apple orchard in the background.
Image taken March 6, 2010.
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Mayerdale Place, view from the southwest, Mosier, Oregon.
Image taken March 6, 2010.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, October 29, 1805 ...
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A cloudy morning wind from the West but not hard, we Set out at day light [from their camp on Rocky Island at Crates Point], and proceeded on about five miles Came too on the Stard. Side at a village of 7 houses built in the Same form and materials of those above, here we found the Chief we had Seen at the long narrows [The Dalles] ...
they are hospitable and good humered Speak the Same language of the inhabitants of the last village, we call this the friendly village [vicinity of Dougs Beach].
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after brackfast we proceeded on, the mountains are high on each Side [high basalt cliffs of the Rowena Gap, with Rowena Crest on the south and the Chamberlain Lake area on the north], containing Scattering pine white oake & under groth, hill Sides Steep and rockey; at 4 miles lower we observed a Small river falling in with great rapidity on the Stard. Side [Klickitat River] below which is a village of 11 houses [today the town of Lyle is on the upstream side of the Klickitat], here we landed to Smoke a pipe with the nativs and examine the mouth of the river, which I found to be 60 yards wide rapid and deep, The inhabitants of the village are friendly and Chearfull; those people inform us also those at the last village that this little river is long and full of falls, no Salmon pass up it, it runs from N. N. E. that ten nations live on this river and its waters, on buries, and what game that Can kill with their Bow & arrows
we purchased 4 dogs and Set out- (this village is the of the Same nation of the one we last passed) and proceeded on The Countrey on each side begin to be thicker timbered with Pine and low white Oake; verry rockey and broken [passing Mayer State Park on the Oregon side]. passed three large rocks in The river the middle rock is large long and has Several Squar vaults on it. we call this rockey Island the Sepulchar [Memaloose Island] - The last river we passed we Shall Call the Cataract River [Klickitat River] from the number of falls which the Indians say is on it- passed 2 Lodges of Indians a Short distance below the Sepulchar Island [Memaloose Island] on the Stard. Side river wide, at 4 mile passed 2 houses on the Stard. Side, Six miles lower passed 4 houses above the mouth of a Small river 40 yards wide on the Lard. Side [Hood River] a thick timbered bottom above & back of those houses; those are the first houses which we have Seen on the South Side of the Columbia River, (and the axess to those dificuelt) for fear of the approach of their common enemies the Snake Indians, passed 14 houses on the Std. Side Scattered on the bank- from the mouth of this little river which we shall Call Labeasche River [Hood River], the falls mountain [Mount Hood] is South and the top is covered with Snow. one mile below pass the mouth of a large rapid Stream on the Stard. Side [White Salmon River], opposit to a large Sand bar [from Hood River], in this creek the Indians above take their fish, here we Saw Several canoes, which induced us to call this Canoe Creek [White Salmon River] it is 28 yards wide, about 4 miles lower and below the Sand bar [Hood River sandbar] is a butifull cascade falling over a rock of about 100 feet [Wah Gwin Gwin Falls, location of the Columbia Gorge Hotel],
[On the route map (Moulton, vol.1, map#78) a "C___ Spring" is shown on the north side of the river, today the location of Spring Creek and Spring Creek Fish Hatchery, with no mention of it in any text. On the south side, at the location of Wah Gwin Gwin Falls, only "Cascade" is labeled and "4 Houses of Indians".]
a Short distance lower passed 4 Indian houses on the Lard. Side in a timbered bottom, a fiew miles further we came too at 3 houses on Stard. Side, back of which is a pond [today the location of Drano Lake. The Little White Salmon River empties into Drano Lake.] in which I Saw Great numbers of Small Swan, Capt. Lewis and went into the houses of those people
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Here the mountains are high on each Side, those to the Lard. Side has Some Snow on them at this time, more timber than above and of greater variety.
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