Hi, They had a ship building place just above the Ore City Falls by Canemah. Have you heard of Canemah? Canemah was like Grand Central Station until about 1872. That is when my Great Grandfather came to Oregon and my Grandmother said that the first job he had when they came here in 1872 was he helped to build the Ore city Locks. They built the Ore City Locks so ships could get past the Falls. Before they built the Locks they had to build steamboats at Canemah for the upper River and they built steamboats down the river in other palces to be used below the Ore City Falls. Canemah was Grand Central Station before 1872 because everything stopped at Canemah where they had to unload everything off of the Steamboats and load it on wagons and haul it on land past the Falls and then load it back onto Steamboats below the falls so they could keep going. After the Locks were built nobody needed to to stop at Canemah anymore so Canemah kind of fizzled out and big business interests went elsewhere, ok? I have stories from old newspapers about the fact that two steamships went over the Ore City Falls but it was not on purpose to be sure!! One ship was destroyed and everyone was killed I believe. The other ship, the Captain actually maneuvered the ship in a way that he actually made it and the ship was not damaged!! That must have been a heart pounding experience?! I bet he bragged to no end for years after that how good of a captain he was to get over those Falls in one piece. :-] That ship was not used on the river above the Falls anymore after that because there was no way to get back over the Falls. I do not know if that ship was still in service after the Locks were built and did in deed get back to the upper river at some time? Hope that helps some? I just got back from a research trip to Walla Walla area. I went to find the Foster "Lost" Cemetery near Prescott, WA about 18 miles north of Walla Walla. I stopped to ask directions from this couple and a little wiener dog snuck up behind me and jumped up and bit me on the back of my leg so hard it really hurt. I went to my Motel and it was bleeding. I went to Emergency at Walla Walla Hopital and got two shots in the rear end after a 3 hour wait and had to talk to the police and what a day that was! Some people will do anything to get another ancestor grave picture I guess even risk vicious dog attacks! ;-] Nathan --- [email protected] wrote: > > > > "came down the Columbia River on the steamboat > "Multnomah" reaching > Portland 22 Oct 1852." > > > > dw says: > > This from the Albany Chamber of Commerce website: > > The steamboat "Multnomah" came to town in 1852, the > stage in 1860, the > locomotive in 1871 (by 1921, 28 passenger trains > left daily in five different > directions), the highways and airport in the first > half of the 1900s, and > ultimately the freeway. > > > Now my question is: How did that steamship get > over the Falls at Oregon > City? > > 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 > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so > much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >