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Rowland Lake, Washington.
Rowland Wall rises above.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken November 11, 2004.
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Rowland Lake ...
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Rowland Lake is a small lake located on the north side of the
Bonneville Reservior at Columbia River Mile (RM) _____.
Rowland Lake (first called "DuBois Lake") was originally an arm of the Columbia River.
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"... Orginally an arm of the Columbia River. The lake was formed by fill when the railroad was constructed
here. The lake was originally called DuBois Lake and is better known by that name locally. ..."
[Washington State Department of Ecology Website, 2006]
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"... Construction of the Bonneville Dam created Rowland Lake in the 1930s. As aerial photographs from the 1930s show, Rowland Lake was formerly a marshy flat area in the bottom of a natural amphitheater (i.e. the Rowland Basin). Most of the slopes within the amphitheater are steep and covered with talus or trees, but a few flat, grassy slopes poke up through the trees like islands. ..."
[U.S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot National Forest Website, 2006]
Rowland Lake is located 4 miles east of
Bingen, Washington, and is nestled in the sloping backside of Coyote Wall, an anticline/syncline feature of the Bingen Gap.
Rowland Wall, another massive basalt cliff, rises to the east of Rowland Lake.
Immediately to the west of Rowland lake is the "Labyrinth", a maze of basalt rock piles.
Rowland Lake covers nearly 85 acres and is connected to the Columbia River via a culvert.
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At Rowland Lake ...
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Road along west side of Rowland Lake, Washington.
View from Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken November 11, 2004.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, April 14, 1806 ...
This morning at 7 oClock we were joined by Sgt. Pryor and they three hunters they brought with them 4 deer which drewyer had killed yesterday. we took brackfast and departed at 9 A. M. [from their camp near Dog Mountain] the wind rose and <proceeded on> Continued to blow hard all day but not so violent as to prevent our proceeding. we kept Close allong the N. Shore all day. the river from the rapids [Cascade Rapids] to the Commencement of the narrows [The Dalles] is from ½ to ¾ of a Mile in wedth, and possesses but little Current. the bead is rock except at the enterence of Labiech's river [Hood River] which heads in Mt. Hood [Mount Hood, Oregon] and like the quick Sand River [Sandy River] brings down from thence Vast bodies of Sand the Mountains through which the river passes nearly to Cataract River [Klickitat River] are high broken rocky, particularly Covered with fir and white Cedar, and in maney places very romantic scences. Some handsom Cascades are Seen on either Side tumbling from the Stupendious rocks of the mountains into the river. I observe near the river the long leafed Pine which increas as we assend and Superseeds the fir altogether about the Sepulchre rock [Memaloose Island]. We find the trunks of maney large pine trees Standing erect as they grew, at present in 30 feet water [Submerged Forest]; they are much doated and none of them vegitateing. at the lowest water of the river maney of those trees are in 10 feet water. the Cause I have attempted to account for as I decended. at 1 P M. we arrived at a large village Situated in a narrow <village> bottom on the N. Side [between the White Salmon River and Bingen, Washington] a little above the enterance of Canoe Creek [White Salmon River]. their houses are reather detached, and extend for Several Miles. they are about 20 in number. those people Call themselves Wil-la-cum.
... We halted at this village Dined
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after dinner we proceeded on our voyage. I walked on Shore with Shabono on the N. Side through a handsom bottom [Bingen area]. met Several parties of women and boys in Serch of herbs & roots to Subsist on maney of them had parcels of the Stems of the Sun flower. I joined Capt Lewis and the party at 6 miles, at which place the river washed the bottom of high Clifts on the N. Side [Bingen Gap]. Several Canoes over take us with families moveing up. we passed 3 encampments and came too in the mouth of a Small Creek [Major Creek] on the N. Side imediately below a village and opposit the Sepulchar rock [Memaloose Island]. this village Consists of about 100 fighting men of Several tibres from the plains to the North Collected here waiting for the Salmon. ...
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