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Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School in 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada; Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint in Jefferson County, Oregon; SS Peter Skene Ogden, a ship laid down 18 October 1942 and launched 14 November 1942. She was torpedoed off the coast of Algeria in 1944 and was later scrapped. Peter Skene Ogden Trail in La Pine ...
The facility is named in honor of Peter Skene Ogden who first entered the Crooked River Valley while leading a Hudson's Bay Company trapping party in 1825. Although no mention is made at the park itself, it was also the site of one of Oregon's most sensational murders, [2] which led to the conviction of Jeannace June Freeman of first degree murder.
Jeannace June Freeman (1941/42 - 2003) was the first woman ever sentenced to death in the U.S. state of Oregon, ... at Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint.
Portrait of Peter Skene Ogden, Western re-discoverer of the Three Sisters, circa 1854. The first Westerner to discover the Three Sisters was the explorer Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825. He describes "a number of high mountains" south of Mount Hood. [86]
Shortly after its completion, Oregon State Highway Division created the Peter Skene Ogden Park just to the south of the bridge. The bridge has a total length of 464 feet (141 m) with a main span of 330 feet (100 m). The deck is 295 feet (90 m) above the canyon floor.
Along Route 97, about 9 miles (14 km) north of Redmond and downstream of Smith Rock is the Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint overlooking the Crooked River Gorge. The gorge at this point is about 300 feet (90 m) deep and 400 feet (120 m) wide.
Miles Morris Goodyear (February 24, 1817 – November 12, 1849) was an American fur trader and mountain man who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now the city of Ogden, Utah. [1] The fort was located approximately two miles south of the confluence of the Weber and Ogden rivers and about one-quarter mile west of the end of Ogden's ...
Peter Skene Ogden encountered inland Rogue River natives in 1827.. The first known contact between these groups of indigenous people and Europeans occurred when British explorer George Vancouver anchored off Cape Blanco, about 30 miles (48 km) north of the mouth of the Rogue River, and native people visited the ship in canoes. [4]