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unusual facts about Oregon Territory


Oregon Route 58

By the 1850s, Emigrant Pass, slightly south of OR 58's crossing at Willamette Pass, was being used by emigrants to the Oregon Territory as a way over the Cascades.


Francis A. Chenoweth

In 1849, he moved to the Oregon Territory and the next year settled on the north side of the Columbia River.

Mount Linn

The mountain was named by John C. Frémont in honor of Lewis F. Linn, a senator from Missouri, who played an important roll in the acquisition of the Oregon Territory.

Orville C. Pratt

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

Washington State Legislature

The Washington State Legislature traces its ancestry to the creation of the Washington Territory in 1853, following successful arguments from settlers north of the Columbia River to the U.S. federal government to legally separate from the Oregon Territory.


see also

Charles S. Drew

A hardcover version of Drew’s report of Indian attacks on settlers in the Oregon Territory was published by Ye Galleon Press of Fairfield, Washington in 1973.

François Norbert Blanchet

On December 1 1843, the Vatican under Pope Gregory XVI established the Vicariate Apostolic of the Oregon Territory, and named Blanchet its vicar apostolic.

John Gaines

John P. Gaines (1795–1857), lawyer, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Mexican-American War officer, Governor of Oregon Territory