It may take some effort but I would follow up on the suggestion about the newspapers. It may have been that the boat was put on a trailer and hauled by oxen, railroad or another means around the falls to the upper/lower river. I know this sounds extraordinary but if the boat was built in the east they had to get it west some way. And if they could get it from the east to Oregon going around the falls would be a minor trip. In the past they moved things that we find fantastic in this day and age (when we think that we know everything and are so much more enabled). A case in point is the moving of a number of multi-storied brick buildings facing west Burnside when it was widened. It took not only the building records, a report in the City archives with photographs and a newspaper article to convince an engineer that I was working with that it was true and that I hadn't just been smoking something. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GFO] 1852 pioneers Hi, They had a ship building place just above the Ore City Falls by Canemah. Have you heard of Canemah? dw says: Yes, I know where Canemah is and the story behind it. I'm still curious about the two references to the "Multnomah", one as being on the Columbia and the other on the Willamette in the same year - 1852. Interestly, there were two later boats named the Multnomah one of which ended up in Puget Sound. I've had several off list responses, including references to some books to check. "Willamette Landings", by Howard Mc Kinley Corning is interesting reading but all I've found in it regarding the "Multnomah" is - "in 1852 the steamer Multnomah nosed in at the muddy landing"" (in Albany). In "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon" by Robert Carlton Clark, PH.D. 1927 Vol 1;464: "The steamboat inductry prospered in 1851 - the Wallamet, Multnomah, James P Flint, Eagle & Washington were running on the lower river. The Multnomah was built in the East - - She operated on the upper Willamette and was the first boat to ascend to Corvallis. The next year she was put on the Oregon City-Portland run." One response indicated the locks at Oregon City had been there "forever". According to the Clark history, pg 470 "A project for a portage railroad was formed as early as 1858 and a horse railroad one mile long was built around the falls in 1862". pg 472: "With completion of the canal and locks in 1873 at Oregon City a new era in water transportation was opened". So I still haven't found out how the Multnomah got from the lower Willamette to the upper river, but I do know that neither the portage railroad or the locks were in place that early. Daraleen ==== ORFORUM Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] that contains (in the body of the message) only the single word: unsubscribe ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx