Oregon City

Oregon City
a town in NW Oregon, on the Willamette River. 14,673.

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      city, seat (1843) of Clackamas county, northwestern Oregon, U.S., at Willamette Falls (40 feet [12 metres] high) and the juncture of the Clackamas and Willamette rivers. It forms part of a tri-city complex, just southeast of Portland, that includes Gladstone and West Linn. In 1829–30 John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company settled the site at an Indian village on a narrow plain backed by high cliffs. His house, built in 1845–46, is preserved as a national historic site. Laid out in 1842, Oregon City became the first territorial capital. It flourished as a supply point during the California gold rush and in 1846 published the Oregon Spectator, one of the first newspapers west of the Mississippi River.

      Locks now bypass the falls, which supply power for paper and woolen mills. Dairying, fruit growing, and tourism are further economic factors. A free municipal elevator (built 1915, replaced 1955) lifts pedestrians 90 feet (27 metres) from the business district on the riverside to the city's residential area laid out on top of the cliff. Clackamas Community College was opened there in 1966. Oregon City was the birthplace of poet Edwin Markham (Markham, Edwin). Inc. 1844. Pop. (1990) 14,698; (2000) 25,745.

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