1950s Willamette Falls
This is the historic Willamette Falls in Oregon City, Oregon. Oregon City was the capital of the Oregon Territory and the default “end” of the Oregon Trail for many years.
It has been a site of commerce since the 1860s, the site of the first Hydropower Plant on the West Coast, and at the time it was built, the south end of the longest continuous power transmission lines north to Portland, 9 miles away.
Today the mill buildings on the right side of this picture is actively being torn down and the falls being restored as a park and wild life habitat.
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