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

[Aileen Itzen]

The Willamette river was traveled by riverboat to a point above Corvallis
from very early on the settlement of Oregon.  The Willamette was virtually
the main highway.  Aileen



At 08:28 AM 12/22/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>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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