"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