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3 unusual facts about Celilo Falls


Columbia Falls

Celilo Falls on the Oregon-Washington border, also known as "Columbia Falls"

Wasco County, Oregon

Celilo Falls on the Columbia River served as a gathering place and major trading center for the local Native Americans, including the Wasco, Paiute, and Warm Springs tribes, for thousands of years.

WYAM

Celilo Falls, a tribal fishing area on the border between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington


Lewis and Clark Expedition

In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.


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