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Mount Hood from Highway 26.
Parts of Highway 26 follow the old Barlow Road, part of the Oregon Trail.
Image taken August 16, 2009.
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Oregon Trail ...
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The Oregon Trail ran approximately 2,000 miles from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains and then to the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The trip took four to six months. Independence, Missouri, is considered the beginning of the Oregon Trail and Oregon City, Oregon, is considered the end. The trail was busy, lasting from the early 1840s and ending with the coming of the railroad at the end of the 1860s.
Large scale migration began in 1843, when a wagon train of over 800 people with 120 wagons and 5,000 cattle made the five month journey.
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Oregon Trail below Signal Hill, east of The Dalles, Oregon.
Information via volunteer guide, Horsethief Lake Park (Columbia Hills State Park), Washington.
Image taken October 15, 2011.
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Oregon National Historic Trail ...
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In 1978, the entire Oregon Trail, including the Barlow Road, was named a National Historic Trail by the U.S. Congress. The Trail crosses through six states -- Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming.
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Crates Point ...
"At Crates Point, a protected harbor at the mouth of Chenowith Creek, the Oregon Trail pioneers put into the river. John McLoughlin, despite orders from his superiors, sent bateaux and food here to assist (and occasionally rescue) weary emigrants. Nearby were many pine trees to cut for building immense rafts that could hold up to six wagons. Writing in 1843, explorer John C. Fremont described them as "ark-like rafts, on which they had embarked their families and households, with their large wagons and other furniture, while their stock were driven along the shore.""
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Oregon-California Trails Association website, 2011, "The Dalles, Oregon, End of the Old Oregon Trail".
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Barlow Road ...
The Barlow Road is a part of the Oregon Trail, being established in 1845, making its way around the south side of Mount Hood. This road provided an alternative to the dangerous and expensive route that used rafts to transport wagons down the Columbia River.
The Barlow Road began at The Dalles, headed south through Dufur and Tygh Valley, then turned west and north through Barlow Pass and Government Camp, passed through "Tollgate #5" and crossed the Sandy River, and continued to the community of Sandy, where it headed west and ended up at Oregon City.
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Sign, "Barlow Road Route", The Dalles, Oregon.
Image taken September 28, 2011.
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Tollgate Replica, Barlow Road, Rhododendron, Oregon.
Image taken September 20, 2011.
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Oregon Trail Interpretive Center ...
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Sign, "End of the Oregon Trail", Canby, Oregon.
Image taken October 22, 2011.
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Structure, "End of the Oregon Trail", Canby, Oregon.
Image taken October 22, 2011.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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