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

[Charlotte Sawyer]

By river, I thought they might have come down the Columbia and disembark at Portland................



>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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