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Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later"
"Nicolai Ridge, Oregon"
Includes ... Nicolai Ridge ... Nicolai Mountain ...
Image, 2004, Columbia River looking upstream from Bradley Wayside, Oregon, with Wauna, Oregon, click to enlarge
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Columbia River looking upstream from Bradley State Wayside, Oregon. Visible are Puget Island (left) and Coffee Pot Island (middle), with Wauna, Oregon, on the right. The ridge in the background is Nicolai Ridge, a basalt ridge undercut and steepened by the Missoula Floods. Image taken November 20, 2004.


Nicolai Ridge ...
Nicolai Ridge is a basalt ridge on the Oregon side of the Columbia River which was undercut by Missoula flood erosion, resulting in a steep north face towering over Westport and Wauna. Bradley State Wayside, downstream of Wauna, sits upon this ridge and provides great views.

Nicolai Ridge and Nicolai Mountain ...
Nicolai Ridge and Nicolai Mountain were named for the Nicolai brothers who came to Oregon in the 1860s. In 1868 they started a sawmill in Beaver Valley, south of Rainier, and later on they established the Nicolai Door Company and Nicolai-Neppach Company, a custom millwork operation in Portland. Nicolai Mountain is located on the south end of Nicolai Ridge.


From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...

Clark, ...
 




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*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003

Sources: Allen, J.E., and Burns, M., 1986, Cataclysms on the Columbia, Timber Press, Oregon; McArthur, L.A., and McArthur, L.L., 2003, Oregon Geographic Names, Oregon Historical Society Press, Portland.

All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.
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