Hi Cheri I heard the Morrow co. museum is in financial trouble. They have a huge collection of ancestry. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MCMuseum/ They have a website. I visited last summer. They have volunteers but will lose their real help. Do you know about the new museum near Pendleton? Oregon Trail and Native American history? a must see. If you have certain interests in that area I'd write the Morrow Co Museum as soon as you can, with a self-addressed envelope. Ask for any SURNAME file folders they might have, etc. Laura Galloways and Hales near Heppner -----Original Message----- From: Cheri [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fort Henrietta LOL...oops, I think I was misleading in my previous post. I didn't even see the part about Fort Henrietta, and frankly I have absolutely no idea where it was. :-) I was strictly speaking of the Methodist Missionaries who showed up at an early date at Ft Dalles (The Dalles) and were the basis of not only much of the early religious activity in Wasco Co., but also many other transactions that essentially contributed a tremendous amount to the settlement of that area. It is one of the subjects that I plan to research further on my next trip to The Dalles, because the Methodists are frequently mentioned in a pretty wide array of writeups about the formation of the Wasco Co. area. I would guess that Judy is probably quite right about Ft. Henrietta, since she was raised in that area and has obviously studied the history there, so I don't dispute that at all. However, I might add that in the earliest years of Wasco County, it did include all of what is east of the Cascade Mountains and west of the Rockies, as far north as Montana -- so it's also possible that Ft. Henrietta did once actually fall within the confines of the mega-Wasco Co., even if it now is in Umatilla or Morrow Co. I do apologize for misleading anyone. I'm rather one-tracked when it comes to the mention of Wasco Co., so I spouted off before fully digesting the post to which I was responding. -- Cheri [email protected] --->>>^<<<--- Wasco Co., OR GenWeb site--> http://www.historysavers.com/orwasco/