Christmas programs, wood-warmed Sunday School lessons, and a tolling bell calling the faithful are all part of the legacy of this pioneer church building.
The Imbler Church was built in 1878. The little building was originally located two . . . — — Map (db m111371) HM
The Bicentennial wagon train passed here July 1975 on their 3,000 mile trek to retrace the pioneer wagon trails that settled the West.
In Commemoration of the Nation's 200th birthday, the wagon train started at the U.S. Canadian Peace Arch, Blaine, . . . — — Map (db m111450) HM
"Commenced the ascent of the Blue Mountains It is a lovely morning, and all hands seem to be delighted with the prospect, of being so near timber again, after weary months of travel, on the dry dusty sage plants, with nothing to receive the eye; . . . — — Map (db m111491) HM
Native peoples crossed the Blue Mountains long before the first explores and fur trappers.
In 1834, John Kirk Townsend found the Cayuse and Nez Perce, very friendly towards us, each of the chiefs taking us by the hand with great . . . — — Map (db m111490) HM
Arriving in Oregon in 1916 with new innovative ideas on how bridges should be built to support the creation of a well-planned highway system, Conde B. McCullough became Oregon's State Bridge Engineer in 1919.
Pleasing Lines . . . — — Map (db m111442) HM
Lumber was vital to early settlers of the Grande Ronde Valley. In 1890, Smith and Stanley built a large mill in the small town of Perry, Oregon. Operating the first bandsaw in Union County, the large mill at Perry was producing about 20,000,000 . . . — — Map (db m111440) HM
(Six panels dealing with the Blue Mountian portion of the Oregon Trail are found beneath this kiosk)
The Blue Mountains
Oregon Trail emigrants crossed the Rocky Mountains through South Pass in Wyoming. The ascent and . . . — — Map (db m111466) HM
La Grande was the first town permanently settled in Northeastern Oregon. Daniel Chaplin laid out the original "Old Town" in spring of 1862 and Ben Brown built the first house, a log cabin, alongside the Oregon Trail at the corner of B Avenue and . . . — — Map (db m111438) HM
The community of Nibley briefly flourished at the turn of the century. This pioneer community, 11 miles east of La Grande, was in the midst of what are now fields. Charles W. Nibley, George Stoddard, and
M.L. Causey organized the Oregon Land . . . — — Map (db m240529) HM
"... we traveled on for the Blue Mountains cutting our way through the fallen timber... We found it very laborious ... with our dull axes that we had not ground since we left Missouri having no grinding stone to grind them & our hands being very . . . — — Map (db m111494) HM
On August 15, 1853 Henry Allyn wrote the following about his second day in the Blue Mountains: "Elizabeth and father still quite unwell ... We noon on the mountain and take our mules down into a doleful cavern and found a little grass and water, . . . — — Map (db m111492) HM
La Grande was founded in 1861 on this site. The first chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was erected (1901) it was a frame building 34 x 60 ft. costing $2,100. A brick tabernacle was
built in 1907 and the chapel became a . . . — — Map (db m240531) HM
During the mid-1800s, thousands of American emigrants labored along this ridge. Since then, stage coach, train and automobile roads have paralleled the Oregon Trail over these mountains.
Only traces of the original road remain, yet the ideals of . . . — — Map (db m111496) HM
Madame Marie Dorion, a Native American of the Sioux Nation, gained recognition for her endurance and courage in the early American West. As the only woman on the long and difficult Wilson Price Hunt expedition from Montreal to the wild Oregon . . . — — Map (db m111338) HM
