Copied from: Matt’s Today in History Podcast. This is here only for my own edification to look more into this event and it’s consequences. “Tonight’s transcript was written by Amir Mans of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Thanks, Amir, for your hard work in putting this show together. On this day in 1951, nationalist [...]
The History of Estacada, Faraday and Cazadero are tied very closely together. All three towns are also closely associated with Portland’s growth in the 1890-1910 era, and the number of trolley cars that criss-crossed the city and tied it’s suburbs together. In 1891 Six different Transportation Companies had rail way tracks in and around Portland. [...]
I wrote this in response to an inquiry from some visitors to Oregon. They’re spending a couple of weeks here and wanted to know the best way to see the most of Oregon in the time they have. Yeah, your itinerary is a bit backwards up in my opinion. I would fly into Portland, drive [...]
Sometimes city names pop up in the most interesting of places. While looking through vintage photographs on Shorpy.com I came across this interesting photograph. The caption says: “October 1939. “Mr. and Mrs. Wardlaw at entrance to their dugout basement home. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon.” Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement [...]
Idanha is a sleepy town on Highway 22 in the Santiam Pass about four miles east of the town of Detroit Lake. The 2000 Census reported the population at 232 residents. Yet, if not for the political maneuverings of Portland railroad interests in the late 1800s, the town would have much more prominence then it [...]
In my stash of papers dating from High School, I found this neat little legend about a shipwreck and burned Treasure near Neahkahnie Mountain on the Oregon Coast. I have no recollection of where or when I picked up this document. Based on the age of the papers it’s in, I’d guess sometime in late [...]
Using Radio Carbon Dating (which is interesting in itself) scientists have determined that the last Wooly Mammoths died about 1700 B.C. They were a dwarfed species that lived on Wrangel Island which is in the Artic Sea in North Eastern Russia. Dwarfism is fairly typical for animals that get trapped on islands, so their size [...]
As of Friday, April 9th, 2010 I shall be on the road to Langtry Texas for a family reunion of sorts. I’m not 100% sure of the family connection of most people attending will be, but I’m very much looking forward to the trip itself. I’ve been on two long trips like this before, once [...]
Of the dozen or so ferry crossing across the Willamette River during the 1800′s, this is probably one of the most famous ones. It is the first official one run by a White Settler. Picture of Alphonso standing on his Ferry. From the Boone Society Web Page The Ferry started running in 1847 and was [...]
The human concept of morality poses upon us some interesting quandaries. We create laws to regulate behaviors and protect the innocent, but in some cases these laws actually cause more issues then they solve. As I pointed out earlier the economic impact of the Drug Trade alone is well into the Billions if not over [...]