[or-roots] How did they get here; (from archive)

[W David Samuelsen]

if by railroad, they had to go to California then go north to Oregon.
If from east - wagon trains since the railroad didn't come through
eastern Oregon until 1889.

They couldn't have come down the river - NO way!  At the time, even 
today, the rivers were small feeding Willamette River miles to the east.

They had to come by wagon trains to get to the area.

David

Charlotte Sawyer wrote:
> THANKS for pulling that out of the archive for us!  Very interesting info!
> 
> I too have a transportation mystery.  According to family legend, one of my
> great-uncles is said to have "died the day they landed" in Forest Grove,
> Oregon in 1881.  All I know for sure is that they didn't "land" in a plane.
> :-)
> 
> Thoughts have been either to have come down the river by boat or come in by
> train.  I haven't been able to come up with any ideas to try to figure out
> which.
> 
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