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Woodward Creek, Washington.
View looking downstream. Pierce Island is in the background.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Woodward Creek ...
Woodward Creek is located on the Washington State side of the Columbia at River Mile (RM) _____. The mouth of Woodward Creek enters the Columbia River behind Pierce Island and downstream of Beacon Rock. Across the Columbia is the community of Warrendale, Oregon.
Lewis and Clark spotted Woodward Creek and nearby Duncan Creek on November 2, 1806.
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"... passed three Islands covered with tall timber opposit the Beatin rock Those Islands are nearest the Starboard Side, iimediately below on the Stard. Side passed a village of nine houses, which is Situated between 2 Small Creeks ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, show a John D. Woodward being issued a land title on November 22, 1865, for 186.02 acres of parts of T2N R6E Sections 35 and 36, under the 1850 "Oregon-Donation Act".
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Pierce Island and Woodward Creek, Washington.
Pierce Island (left), Woodward Creek (running through lower middle ground), the Columbia River (left to center) with Warrendale, Oregon, in the background. View from boat launch at Beacon Rock State Park, Washington, off of Washington State Highway 14.
Image taken October 27, 2004.
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Woodward Creek, Washington.
View at mouth, looking downstream, with Pierce Island.
Image taken July 2, 2006.
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Woodward Creek, Washington.
View at mouth, looking upstream.
Image taken July 2, 2006.
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Nootka Roses are found throughout the Columbia River Valley.
Captain Lewis writes about the wild roses in his journal at a camp in Idaho while on the return journey, although both he and Captain Clark mention the wild rose throughout their journey.
Historians have identified these two roses as the Nootka Rose (Rosa nutkana) and Wood's Rose ("Rosa woodsii, or the Western Wild Rose). Both were undescribed species at the time of the Lewis and Clark journey (Moulton, Vol.8). The "Wild Rose" is a plentiful throughout the woodlands of Washington and Oregon.
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Wild Rose, Columbia River Gorge.
The Nootka Rose. Photographed near Woodward Creek, Washington.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Wild Rose, Columbia River Gorge.
The Nootka Rose. Photographed near Woodward Creek, Washington.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, November 2, 1805 ...
Examined the rapid below us [from their camp at Fort Rains, looking at the Cascade Rapids] more pertcelarly the danger appearing too great to Hazzard our Canoes loaded, dispatched all the men who could not Swim with loads to the end of the portage below, I also walked to the end of the portage with the carriers where I delayed untill everry articles was brought over and canoes arrived Safe. here we brackfast and took a Meridn. altitude 59° 45' 45" about the time we were Setting out 7 Squars came over loaded with Dried fish, and bear grass neetly bundled up, Soon after 4 Indian men came down over the rapid in a large canoe.
passed a rapid at 2 miles & 1 at 4 miles opposite the lower point of a high Island on the Lard Side [Bradford Island], and a little below 4 Houses on the Stard. Bank, a Small Creek on the Lard Side [Tanner Creek] opposit Straw berry Island [Hamilton Island], which heads below the last rapid, opposit the lower point of this Island [Hamilton Island] passed three Islands covered with tall timber [today there are two, Ives and Pierce] opposit the Beatin rock [Beacon Rock]
Those Islands are nearest the Starboard Side, imediately below on the Stard. Side passed a village of nine houses [Skamania and Skamania Landing], which is Situated between 2 Small Creeks [Woodward Creek and Duncan Creek], and are of the Same construction of those above; here the river widens to near a mile, and the bottoms are more extensive and thickly timbered, as also the high mountains on each Side, with Pine, Spruce pine, Cotton wood, a Species of ash, and alder. at 17 miles passed a rock near the middle of the river [Phoca Rock], about 100 feet high and 80 feet Diamuter,
proceed on down a Smoth gentle Stream of about 2 miles wide, in which the tide has its effect as high as the Beaten rock [Beacon Rock] or the Last rapids at Strawberry Island [Hamilton Island],- Saw great numbers of waterfowl of Different kinds, Such as Swan, Geese, white & grey brants, ducks of various kinds, Guls, & Pleaver [today just below Beacon Rock is Franz National Wildlife Refuge]. ...
we encamped under a high projecting rock on the Lard. Side [Rooster Rock, with Crown Point rising above it], here the mountains leave the river on each Side
[leaving the Columbia River Gorge, Steigerwald Land NWR is on the north and the Sandy River delta is on the south],
which from the great Shute to this place is high and rugid [Columbia River Gorge]; thickly Covered with timber principalley of the Pine Species. The bottoms below appear extensive and thickly Covered with wood. river here about 2½ miles wide. Seven Indians in a Canoe on their way down to trade with the nativs below, encamp with us, those we left at the portage passed us this evening and proceeded on down The ebb tide rose here about 9 Inches, the flood tide must rise here much higher- we made 29 miles to day from the Great Shute [Cascade Locks]-
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