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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.
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 Oswego School District; Lake Oswego Transit Center; Lakeridge High School; List of public art in Lake Oswego, Oregon; M. Mercato Grove; Millennium Plaza Park; N ...
Lake Oswego High School first opened in September 1951 as a six-year school, [5] with an enrollment of 564. [6] In 1956, it became a four-year high school with the opening of Lake Oswego Junior High School, and in 1958, a three-year high school (with 589 students) as the junior high expanded to include the 9th grade (for a total of 656 students).
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Lake Oswego, Oregon. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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.
On the west (Lake Oswego) side, there is a 50-foot (15 m) deck plate girder approach span that was built in 1900 and moved to this location in 1931. In 1934, a 60-foot (18 m) open-deck trestle was built on this side of the river. [ 1 ]
The Lake Oswego Review is an American newspaper published in Lake Oswego, Oregon, within the Portland metropolitan area.The paper began as the Western Clackamas Review, was later known as the Oswego Review from 1929 through 1961, [2] and then adopted its present name when the city of Oswego annexed Lake Grove and the lake. [3]