Portland Oregon Museums
Portland Oregon Museums For all it’s quirkiness, Portland has a number of good museums for history and art. It also has a number of “Keep Portland Weird” type museums. Either...
Hines, Oregon
Hines, Oregon Contributed by Steve Arndt: Fred Herrick owned and operated the Herrick Lumber Company and promoted the railroad north of Burns. A community sprang up around the mill, and...
Irish Bend Covered Bridge (Oak Creek)
Irish Bend Covered Bridge The Irish Bend Covered bridge is unique among those in Oregon in that it might have been moved several times. It is of the very common...
Swift, Oregon – Clackamas and Eastern Railroad Stop
Name: Swift Class: GPS: 45.3095662, -122.5592564 Directions: Head south of Oregon on Highway 213. Take a right on S. Henrici Road. Swift was located at the corner of S. Henrici...
Baker’s Covered Bridge
Baker’s Covered Bridge As construction techniques have improved, so has Baker’s Bridge, also known as the Carver Bridge. Located just south of the small town of Carver Oregon across the...
Ritner Creek Covered Bridge
Ritner Creek Covered Bridge The Ritner Creek Bridge was the last covered bridge in use on Oregon’s highways. Note that it is not the last that can still be driven...
Hoskins Covered Bridge
The first Hoskins Covered Bridge was built in 1900 to cross the Luckiamute River in Benton County. It was located in what was then the town of Hoskins. That bridge...
Quartzburg California
John and Robert Burns first settled on the site of Quartzburg in 1847. A mining camp known alternatively as Burns’ Creek, Burns’ Camp, Burns’ Ranch, and Burns’ Diggings grew up...
Top Ten Oregon Ghost Towns
Top Ten Oregon Ghost Towns I get asked quite often “Of the three hundred Ghost Towns of Oregon, which ones should I visit?” Golden Golden Oregon is one of the...
Ghost Town of Union (Clackamas County) Oregon
Name: Union (Clackamas County) Class: Uknown GPS: 45.4206764, -122.4137002 Directions: In Damascus, on SE 242nd Avenue where the Deep Creek-Damascus School is now. Description: This town appears on the map...
Uniontown Oregon (Jackson County)
Name: Uniontown (Jackson County) Class: Unknown GPS: 42.1984581,-123.0442105 Directions: From Jacksonville head South West on Highway 238, at 7.7 miles take a left on Upper Applegate Road. The town site...
Fort Hoskins, Oregon
Fort Hoskins was one of three forts built in the Oregon territory to protect white settlers from coastal indians on the Siletz Reservation and to protect those same indians from...
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