Lake OswegoFifteen thousand years ago, the Missoula floods roared out of the Columbia River Gorge and sculpted a lakebed out of an old river channel. In 1847, Albert Durham built a home and mill at the lake's outlet, calling the area Oswego. In the 1860s, iron ore mined from the surrounding hills gave rise to the hope that Oswego would become the "Pittsburgh of the West." Two decades after its hillsides had been logged and the iron industry failed, the city reinvented itself as an elegant streetcar suburb of Portland, a place where people could live where they played. Oswego Lake's shores were soon lined with picturesque homes, and pleasure boats and water-skiers roamed its waters. Arcadia's Images of America: Lake Oswego chronicles the town's bucolic beginnings, industrial heyday, and successful repurposing from a community based on resource extraction to one of Oregon's most beautiful towns, renamed Lake Oswego after a 1960 merger with nearby Lake Grove. |
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Beautiful Lake Oswego, a city of 36,000 residents, has a reputation within Oregon
for expensive real estate and privileged schools. Many Portlanders know little
more about Lake Oswego than it is an exclusive enclave that counts wealthy ...
Beautiful Lake Oswego, a city of 36,000 residents, has a reputation within Oregon
for expensive real estate and privileged schools. Many Portlanders know little
more about Lake Oswego than it is an exclusive enclave that counts wealthy ...
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They formed the Oregon Iron Company and in 1867 and built a furnace at the
mouth of Sucker Creek. ... (Today downtown Portland has the nation's second
largest collection of castironfronted buildings, second only to New York City's
Soho ...
They formed the Oregon Iron Company and in 1867 and built a furnace at the
mouth of Sucker Creek. ... (Today downtown Portland has the nation's second
largest collection of castironfronted buildings, second only to New York City's
Soho ...
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The lake itself was used as a source of power, and like the town, the lake's
dimensions grew as its outfall was dammed ... Oregon Iron and Steel owned
13,000 acres of barren hillsides in and around Oswego and was at a loss as to
what to do ...
The lake itself was used as a source of power, and like the town, the lake's
dimensions grew as its outfall was dammed ... Oregon Iron and Steel owned
13,000 acres of barren hillsides in and around Oswego and was at a loss as to
what to do ...
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service to Portland, it seemed feasible that Portlanders could be induced to move
out of the city and into a suburban setting that ... In 1909, against the wishes of
Oregon Iron and Steel, which did not want to see its landholdings taxed or its ...
service to Portland, it seemed feasible that Portlanders could be induced to move
out of the city and into a suburban setting that ... In 1909, against the wishes of
Oregon Iron and Steel, which did not want to see its landholdings taxed or its ...
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In 1941, the last vestiges of Oregon Iron and Steel disappeared as the Lake
Oswego Corporation (also called the ... also owns the lake bottom and perimeter,
a unique situation for a large body of water in the middle of an incorporated city.
In 1941, the last vestiges of Oregon Iron and Steel disappeared as the Lake
Oswego Corporation (also called the ... also owns the lake bottom and perimeter,
a unique situation for a large body of water in the middle of an incorporated city.
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Three TOWN AND COUNTRY LIVE ON THROUGH BOOM | |
Four THE LAKE INSPIRES A NEW VENTURE | |
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Author’s collection Bickner boathouse boating concession Boones Ferry building built buyers canoes cement plant charcoal Country Club District COVERED BRIDGE developers DON SCHOLLANDER Durham early Elk Rock furnace stack Glenmorrie Grange Hall hunt club industry Iron and Steel iron furnace Iron Mountain Jantzen KRUSE FARM Ladd Lake Corp Lake Grove Lake Grove area Lake Oswego Corporation Lake Oswego Country Lake Oswego Public lake’s east end Lakewood Bay Lakewood Center land Leonard Streets looking north lumber Marylhurst McVey Avenue neighborhood OLD TOWN OSWEGO Oregon City Oswego Country Club Oswego Creek Oswego Lake Oswego Public Library Oswego residents Oswego Water Paul Murphy photograph shows pig iron pipe foundry platted Portland rail line real estate River Road seen smelting South Oswego South Town style Sucker Creek Swim Park train trestle Tualatin River Water Festival water ski west end WILLAMETTE METEORITE Willamette River Willamette Shore Trolley wooden dams workers
Bibliográfiai információk
| Cím | Lake Oswego Images of America |
| Szerző | Laura O. Foster |
| Kiadó | Arcadia Publishing, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1439623317, 9781439623312 |
| Terjedelem | 128 oldal |
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