Sprague Cemetery – Clackamas County, Oregon
Sprague Cemetery – Clackamas County, Oregon The Sprague Cemetery is one of those frustratingly hard to research cemeteries. Like many small, family cemeteries created in the early days of settlement,...
Ghost Town of Airlie Oregon
Ghost Town of Airlie Oregon Airlie was the southern-most station of the narrow gauge railroad owned by the Oregon Railway Company, LTD. It was named for the Earl of Airlie...
Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography
This is the second of two versions of Margaret Windsor Iman’s autobiography. This one was updated and published in 1954 by the Skamania Historical Society. Read the first version here...
Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington
Felix G. Iman – Stevenson Washington Traveling through Skamania County Recently, and stopping at the excellent Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, revealed a number of interesting local history connections. One of...
Iman Cemetery
Iman Cemetery The Iman Cemetery is in Stevenson Washington. It was established near the North East Corner of the Iman Donation Land Claim in 1901 as the family plot of...
Unity Covered Bridge
Unity Covered Bridge Here is an awesome vintage photo from the 1950’s of the Unity Covered Bridge between Fall Creek and Lowell. In 1890, the first bridge across Fall Creek...
USS Benton County (LST-263) (1943-1958)
USS Benton County (LST-263) was one of several Landing ships built during WWII, named after locations in the Pacific Northwest. Like the rest of the LST, it wasn’t directly named...
CSS Oregon – 1846-1861
CSS Oregon 1846-1861 The CSS Oregon was a wooden side paddle wheel steamer built in New York City in 1846 for the Mobile Mail Line. She had a twin named...
USS Chinook (SP-644) – 1917-1918
USS Chinook I (SP-644) 1917-1918 I have not been able to find any pictures of this boat. If you happen to have one, please let me know below. The USS...
USS Klamath – 1865-1874
USS Klamath 1865-1874 The USS Klamath was One of twenty Casco Class Monitors (iron-clad). It was a single turreted monitor launched on April 20th, 1865 in Cincinnati, OH. The ship...
Oregon (Thomas H. Perkins) – 1841-1845
Oregon 1841-1845 The Oregon has one of the most frustratingly tantalizing and obscure history of all the ships here. It’s pre and post life in the US Navy is almost...
Navy ships named for PNW Locations
Pictures of the USS Plainfield abandoned near Dismal Nitch, Washington got me to thinking about ships that were named for locations, things, or native peoples in the Pacific Northwest. This...
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