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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>More Wheatland Ferry History,</FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=3>Oregon Hikes - Willamette Mission Park</FONT></A>
<DIV class=s>Follow this promenade a mile to the <STRONG>Wheatland
Ferry</STRONG> landing. <B>...</B> Walk along the road to return to your car,
turning left at the <STRONG>first</STRONG> stop sign and <B>...</B> A trailside
monument describes the mission <STRONG>built</STRONG> on the old riverbank by
Methodist <B>...</B><BR><CITE><SPAN class=bc><FONT color=#008000>web.oregon.com
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>History: <FONT color=#0000ff>The
Wheatland Ferry</FONT></STRONG> has the <FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG>oldest ferry
landing in Oregon</STRONG></FONT>, dating to 1844 when mules winched a log barge
across the river with ropes.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nancy</FONT><B></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=lechevrier@earthlink.net href="mailto:lechevrier@earthlink.net">Chris
& Bill Strickland</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots mail list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 26, 2010 11:05
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Wheatland,
Oregon</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>>From a perhaps less biased source than our two current
responders, is this website, citing a book titled<B> </B><FONT
face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><FONT size=3><SMALL>“Willamette Landings
— Ghost Towns for the River”, by Howard McKinlay Corning as a
source:<BR> <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.wheatlandferry.com/oregon/atchison.html">http://www.wheatlandferry.com/oregon/atchison.html</A><BR><BR></SMALL></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><B></B></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><B>“A public sale of
the lots in the town of Atchison, in Yamhill County, on the west bank of the
Willamette river, at Matheny’s Ferry, will take place on the 15th of May
next (1847) on the premises. Wheat will be taken in payment. Further
particulars as to terms &c, will be made known the day of sale.” —Daniel
Matheny</B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><B><IMG height=80
src="cid:3A655E8343284C8C8335F9CA36A3917D@NancyPC" width=96 align=left>This
notice first appeared in the advertising columns of the <I>Spectator</I>,
April 29, 1847,</B></FONT><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><B> but
Atchison is not to be found on any map of Oregon, past or present. Lying at a
point about twelve miles below Salem, Atchison made a quick growth to regional
importance. Its local residents however, thought Atchison City an unlikely
name for a wheat-shipping center and took to calling the place Wheatland.
Wheatland, although still a name on the Oregon map, is gone—its site covered
by a peach orchard that spreads along the bench-land. Only the ferry landing
and the road to it remain.</B></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><B><IMG height=1
src="cid:C1D95B1B2EA44633ABED59068430AE43@NancyPC" width=15>Like many other
early Oregon towns, Wheatland was the ambitious undertaking of a single
individual. Its founder, Daniel Matheny, was born in Virginia, December 11,
1793. Following adventurous years in the War of 1812, in the Black Hawk War of
Illinois, and in a minor fracus of 1839 referred to as the Mormon War, in
which he moved from a lieutanancy to a captaincy, Matheny learned of the free
land to the west in the Oregon Country. It was in the spring of 1843 that he
and his brother Henry allied themelves with the overland wagon train that
became known as the “Great Migration.” In the journey westward Matheney’s
sound judgement was often depended upon.</B></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><B><IMG height=1
src="cid:C1D95B1B2EA44633ABED59068430AE43@NancyPC" width=15>Evidently Matheny
brought some money with him to Oregon; for in the spring of 1844 he purchased
the squatter rights to the donation land claim of James O’Neal, situated on
the west bank of the Willamete River at a point about seventeen miles above
Champoeg. That was just across the river and slightly north of the first
Methodist Mission, then recently abandoned in favor of Salem. Of greater
advantage was the fact that the O’Neal claim also lay just southwest of French
Prairie, a district of growing settlement.<BR></B></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><SMALL><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">continued at the listed
URL,<BR></FONT></SMALL></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial, Times New Roman" size=5><SMALL><FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Bill
Strickland<BR></FONT></SMALL></FONT></P><BR>
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