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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.
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 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.
Of the two first pigs smelted in 1867, one is displayed in the Oregon Historical Society and one remains in place as a street marker at the northwest corner of Ladd and Durham streets in Lake Oswego. [5] [8] The crucible from the second furnace, which was dismantled and sold for scrap in 1926, is still intact in Lake Oswego's Roehr Park. [18]
Lake Oswego: 45: Lake Oswego Hunt Club Ensemble: Lake Oswego Hunt Club Ensemble: January 4, 1988 : 2725 SW Iron Mountain Boulevard: Lake Oswego: 46: Lake Oswego Odd Fellows Hall: Lake Oswego Odd Fellows Hall: March 7, 1979
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 County.
A narrow gauge locomotive in Lake Oswego, c. 1900. The right-of-way now used by the Willamette Shore Trolley was established in the mid-1880s by the Portland and Willamette Valley Railway, which began passenger service with steam trains on July 4, 1887. It provided Oswego (as Lake Oswego was known then) with a direct link to Portland.
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