This mountain pass in named for Samuel K. Barlow who opened the first wagon route over the Cascades in 1846 to complete the Oregon Trail. The route was far from easy. Emigrant Isom Cranfill (cabinet maker, farmer, and itinerant preacher) made the . . . — — Map (db m112383) HM
Imagine feeding your hungry children and skinny ox teams whottleberries here. Helping you spouse repair your tired wagon for tomorrow's dreaded drop down Laurel Hill. Rain clouds gather around Mount Hood's peak. More storms coming. And they say the . . . — — Map (db m112373) HM
In 1924 engineers constructing the first Mt. Hood Highway discovered a gravesite here. The grave was marked with an old wooden wagon tongue buried beneath decades of overgrown brush. When they dug up the site, they found the remains of an emigrant . . . — — Map (db m113603) HM
First Road built over Cascade Range in 1845-1846 by
Samuel K. Barlow (1792-1867)
an Oregon Pioneer from Kentucky
Wamic -- Miles 32
Dalles California Highway -- Miles 38
Maupin -- Miles 48 — — Map (db m112396) HM
Village of
Government Camp
formerly a camp on the old Barlow Road, the village was named in 1849 when US Cavalry troops were forced to abandon wagons and supplies here. — — Map (db m112337) HM
Village of
Government Camp
Formerly a camp on the old Barlow Road was named in the fall of 1849 when the first United States Mounted Rifles abandoned a large number of wagons here, while a detachment was traveling from The Dalles to . . . — — Map (db m112338) HM
Samuel Kimbrough Barlow
Oregon Pioneer from Kentucky
Built the first wagon road across
Cascade Mountains
passing this spot
1845 - 1846
The building of railways . . . — — Map (db m241048) HM
dedicated September 28, 1937 by
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
as a monument to the skill and faithful performance of workers on the rolls of the Works Progress Administration — — Map (db m112336) HM
