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3 unusual facts about Oregon City


James B. Stephens

He started a cooper shop in Oregon City and got his barrel-making stock from William Overton, one of the founders of Portland.

John McLoughlin

After resigning from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1846, McLoughlin moved his family back south to Oregon City in the Willamette Valley.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Latourette was born in Oregon City, Oregon, the son of DeWitt Clinton Latourette and Ella (Scott) Latourette.


Bernard Goldsmith

Goldsmith was the driving force behind the building of locks to navigate around the Willamette River falls across from Oregon City, which allowed boats to travel from the Pacific Ocean to Eugene, Oregon, cutting the cost of shipping Willamette Valley goods to Portland by half.

François Norbert Blanchet

Then on July 24, 1846, the Vatican under Pope Pius IX divided the vicariate apostolic into three dioceses: Oregon City, Vancouver Island, and Walla Walla.

Just Yell Fire

Principal shooting was done over a span of five days in June 2006, primarily on the campus of Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon.

Orville C. Pratt

He wrote the lone dissenting opinion in the controversy over the Oregon Territory’s capital between Oregon City and Salem.

Wayne Scott

He was a member of the Oregon House of Representatives for the Republican Party until 2009, representing House District 39, which includes the communities of Barlow, Beavercreek, Canby, Mulino and Oregon City.


see also

Canemah

Canemah, Oregon an early settlement in Oregon, United States, now part of Oregon City

Henry Pittock

In 1866 he was a partner in the first paper mill in the Northwest, at Oregon City, and later a second mill there and another at Camas, Washington.

Henry Van Asselt

They spent July 4, 1851, at Oregon City, then proceeded, by the Tualatin Plains, to St. Helens.

KKSN

KGDD, a radio station (1520 AM) licensed to Oregon City, Oregon, United States, which used the call sign KKSN from 1998 until 2003

KSHO-TV

KSHO, American AM radio station ("Unforgettable 920") in small Oregon city of Lebanon, which began broadcasting in 1950 as KGAL and used those call letters until 1991

Lynn Snodgrass

She represented District 10, which included her home town of Boring as well as Clackamas, Happy Valley, Damascus, South Gresham, Estacada, and portions of Oregon City.

Oregon Route 99E

Starting in Oregon City, and continuing through the suburban communities of Gladstone, Oak Grove and Milwaukie, OR 99E is known as McLoughlin Boulevard (after fur trader John McLoughlin).