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<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">The City of Lake Oswego recently announced the opening of the Oswego Iron Heritage Trail, a tour route that guides walkers along existing streets and pathways to sites associated with Oregon’s pioneer iron industry. Built in Oswego in 1866, and the first iron furnace on the Pacific Coast, today, it is the only surviving historic furnace west of the Rocky Mountains. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Funded by the City of Lake Oswego and created under the auspices of the City's Historic Resources Advisory Board, the Oswego Iron Heritage Trail features colorful interpretive signs at each site, offering a glimpse of mining and iron making in nineteenth century Oswego. A map at each stop shows the route and featured sites. Three of the seven destinations are located along the Willamette River: the 1866 blast furnace in George Rogers Park, the site of the 1888 furnace in Roehr Park, and the site of the pipe foundry in Foothills Park. The Iron Mountain Trail follows the rail bed of the narrow gauge railroad that transported ore from the mines to the furnace. The Prosser iron mines are located in Iron Mountain Park, although the mines are no longer accessible. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">In Tryon Creek State Park the trail passes an old charcoal pit that once produced fuel for the furnace. At one time, charcoal pits dotted the landscape between Dunthorpe and West Linn and filled the air with smoke. Two sites focus on the lives of the workers: the Worker’s Cottage on Wilbur Street and the Oswego Pioneer Cemetery, the resting place for some 90 workers. An Opportunity Grant from Clackamas County Tourism and Cultural Affairs supported the interpretive display in the cemetery. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Friends of Tryon Creek, in partnership with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, created and funded the sign in Tryon Creek State Park. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Garamond; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Heritage trails focus on a specific aspect of a region’s history and combine outdoor activity (hiking, biking, boating, way marking) with a tour of related historical sites. Heritage trails are one of the most popular forms of cultural tourism. They foster pride in local history and bring economic benefits to local businesses by attracting visitors. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">For information about the trail, visit <SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><A href="http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/parksrec/OIHT.htm"><FONT color=#800080>www.ci.oswego.or.us/parksrec/OIHT.htm</FONT></A></SPAN> . For further information, contact project historian Susanna Kuo, (503) 636-4833 or <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><A href="mailto:susannakuo@comcast.net">susannakuo@comcast.net</A> </SPAN>; City of Lake Oswego Parks and Recreation Director Kim Gilmer, (503) 675-2545 or <SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><A href="mailto:kgilmer@ci.oswego.or.us">kgilmer@ci.oswego.or.us</A> </SPAN>; or Richard Santee, Manager, Oswego Pioneer Cemetery Association, (503) 890-3462 or <SPAN style="COLOR: navy"><A href="mailto:rsantee@comcast.net">rsantee@comcast.net</A></SPAN> .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><BR>The Linn County Historical Society will sponsor a presentation by Dr. Paul VanDevelder on his book “Savages and Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory</SPAN>” at 2 p.m., Jan. 15 at the Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village, 5353 Columbus St., in Albany. Learn about the pattern of broken treaties between the Federal government and Native American tribes of the West during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">An investigative journalist, photographer and Corvallis resident, VanDevelder is the recipient of the 2011 Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction Oregon Book and the author of “Coyote Warrior”, for which he received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for literature. For further information, contact Glenn Harrison, (541) 619-7596 or <A href="mailto:gr.harrison@comcast.net">gr.harrison@comcast.net</A> .<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><BR><BR><BR>-----------------<BR>Save the dates for the 2012 Oregon Heritage Conference: April 26 - 28!<BR><BR>Oregon Heritage News is a service of the Oregon Heritage Commission.<BR>Contact us by emailing heritage.info@state.or.us .<BR></SPAN></BODY></HTML>