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 [...]
My old Ford Crown Victoria is sitting down the street in a lot, VERY cleaned up, even though I traded it in on the cash for clunkers program. I hope they’re not trying to sell it as the transmission was starting to go bad. On the same token, there is a jacked up Ford 350XLT [...]
The Chinook tribe occupied the area along the Columbia River from it’s mouth all the way up to The Dallas area. They lived along the Willamette, Clackamas and Lewis Rivers. Their language is split into two and possibly even three distinct languages. Lower Chinook which is spoken around the mouth of the Columbia is split [...]
The story of Hardman, Oregon in Morrow County really starts in the 1860′s. The huge grasslands were ignored by white men who were more interested in the Willamette Valley area, hunting beaver for their pelts, or the gold mines in the mountains. The Umatilla and Cayuse Indians most likely inhabited the area, or at least [...]