Research Catalog

Title

Willamette landings, ghost towns of the river.

Author

Corning, Howard McKinley, 1896-1977

Publication

Portland, Oregon Historical Society, 1973.

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Details

Additional Authors

Federal Writers' Project (Or.)

Description

vi, 224 pages illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Cities and towns > Oregon
• Local history
• History
• United States, Oregon > Migration, Internal
• Oregon
• Willamette River Region (Or.) > History, Local
• Ghost towns > Oregon
• Willamette Valley (Or.) > Population
• Willamette River (Or.)
• River life > Oregon > Willamette River Region > History
• Cities and towns > Oregon > Willamette River Region > History

Genre/Form

• History.
• Local history.

Note

• "Research for this book was begun by the WPA Oregon Writers' Project in 1936."

Contents

Wilderness River -- The Lower Willamette and the Towns That Grew -- Preludes of Sail and Steam -- Lost Towns of Willamette Falls -- Linn City, Terminal of Commerce -- Hugh Burns's Multnomah City -- Clackamas City Above the Rapids -- Canemah, "The Canoe Place" -- Wheat Ports of the Middle River -- Butteville of Yesterday -- Old Champoeg -- Fairfield Landing -- Wheatland at Matheny's Ferry -- Lincoln, Metropolis of Wheat -- Towns of the Middle and Upper Willamette -- Paddle Wheels and Smoke Plumes -- Trade Towns of Yesterday -- Eola, the Town that Was Cincinnati -- The Red Kilns of Buena Vista -- Orleans in Indian Country -- The Ferry Hamlet of Burlington -- Booneville on the Old Channel -- The Early Trade Center of Peoria -- Lancaster, Fightin'est Town on the River -- Other Landings of a Bygone Day -- The Port of Springville -- Old Oswego and the Lower Tualatin -- Lafayette and the Towns of the Yamhill -- Ray's and Fulquartz Landings -- Still Flows the River -- As the Years Turn : A Later Look.

ISBN

• 0875950426
• 9780875950426

LCCN

73081023

OCLC

• ocm00797030
• 797030
• SCSB-223683

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library