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The Oregon Iron Company Furnace, or Oswego Iron Furnace, is an iron furnace used by the Oregon Iron Company, in Lake Oswego, Oregon's George Rogers Park, in the United States. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places [ 3 ] in 1974 [ 1 ] and underwent a major renovation in 2010.
The Clackamas people once occupied the land that later became Lake Oswego, [7] but diseases transmitted by European explorers and traders killed most of the natives. Before the influx of non-native people via the Oregon Trail, the area between the Willamette River and Tualatin River had a scattering of early pioneer homesteads and farms.
George Rogers Park is a 26-acre (11 ha) public park at intersection of Ladd and South State streets in Lake Oswego, Oregon. [1] This park contains two baseball fields, a soccer field, access to the Willamette River, a memorial garden area, restrooms, a playground, and two outdoor tennis courts. [2]
The lake is a former channel of the Tualatin River, carved in basalt to the Willamette River.Eventually, the river changed course and abandoned the Oswego route. [1] [2]About 13,000 to 15,000 years ago, the ice dam that contained Glacial Lake Missoula ruptured, resulting in the Missoula Floods, which backed the Columbia River up the Willamette River.
Lake Grove was platted in 1912 as a development on the western end of Oswego Lake, near the railroad line. That line, the Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway (PE&E), was part of the East Side Local route of the "Red Electric" passenger service beginning in 1914, a service continued by Southern Pacific after it bought PE&E a year later.
Oct. 10—The Greater Painesville Underground Railroad Freedom and Cultural Preservation Society has announced its inaugural meeting, aiming to spotlight and preserve the Black history of Lake ...
“The city shares in the commitment,” Lund told the crowd, adding that since 2001, the city has spent $45.2 million to buy 2,786 acres of land that stopped the construction of about 900 homes ...
March 26, 1973 (19130 Lot Whitcomb Drive [7: Oregon City: John C. Ainsworth (1822–1893), businessman and co-founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, built this house in 1851, where he lived until Portland supplanted Oregon City as the commercial center of the Northwest.