Old Oregon photos with some fun mystery ones

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Re: Old Oregon photos with some fun mystery ones

Post by payslee » April 7th, 2014, 9:43 am

Miah those "after" pictures are amazing.

I had idly thought of trying to recapture some of these views this summer but probably wouldn't have gotten around to it. Thanks!

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Re: Old Oregon photos with some fun mystery ones

Post by Bosterson » April 7th, 2014, 12:02 pm

viking wrote: Grant's Castle=? Don might be correct with Dog Spine, but something does not look right. No railroad? Nor room…
Ditto, doesn't look right. And Google informs me that "Grant's Castle" is now known as Rowena Crest! :D

That photo Payslee posted is in a book you can look at on Project Gutenberg. And its caption reads:
"Grant Castle" and Palisades of the Columbia, on north side of the river below The Dalles.
Some more info here.
In the 1904 publication "The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904", written by Olin D. Wheeler, today's Rowena Crest was called "Grant's Castle".
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Re: Old Oregon photos with some fun mystery ones

Post by Bosterson » April 7th, 2014, 12:20 pm

Also, not part of the mystery ID game, but here's the Toutle cutout on St. Helens, then

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and now

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Re: Old Oregon photos with some fun mystery ones

Post by miah66 » April 18th, 2014, 2:25 pm

Uh oh Bos,

Looks like that photo was "gutenberg'ed"

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