While I do understand that this list is primarily for genealogy I cannot help but respond to the geographic statements made recently being that I am a 6th generation Oregonian of the Benton County King Family. Actually Oregon City is the old provincial capital of the Oregon Territory and to get to it in the early 1840 - 1850 era you wagoned from Linton on the Willamette River near its mouth at the Columbia River up the wagon road and across the Tualatin Plains then back to the Willamette River at Champoge transferring cargo to barges to be floated back to Oregon City. The reason was the Clackamas River Rapids and the Willamette Falls were just to much difficulty until one fine day a gentleman named Amos King decided to give it a go and pole his cargo up the Willamette River in a direct route. Portland Bye the Bye did not exist for most of this time frame and was nothing more than a Potty Stop when commodities were able to make the direct trip from Fort Vancouver to Oregon City. As for Sauvies Island the location is North of Portland as the Columbia River turns north at the mouth of the Willamette River (One of only 5 rivers in the world that starts in the south and ends in the North) to skirt the northern most end of the Coast Range Mountains. The Island is nothing more than a pile of granite rock pushed there when the Ice Dam Broke long before the Caucasian Settlers reached the area. In fact it is near there that the natural depth of the Columbia River is only 7 feet deep at high tide. Dan