[or-roots] Historical maps

Sat Aug 23 21:35:45 PDT 2008

Carla,
I agree the overlay map is probably the best part of the whole book, but I really enjoyed looking at the pictures in the book as well. Some of our truck drivers of today think it takes a lot of skill to drive our 18 wheelers down the highway, but when you see someone driving four to six pairs of horses pulling three freight wagons behind them on some of the so called roads of the 1800's, you begin to question what takes the most skill!

Ray Powell

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  I have a well-worn copy of this book that I bought the year it was published.  It is somewhat disappointing in the lack of settlement and place name detail for the southern part of the state for the earliest maps, but the overlay that allows comparison between the map of 1972 and the map of 1878 is a lot of fun.  The foreward states that the maps are reproduced from those on file in the archives of the Oregon state library.

  Carla

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  From: Leslie Chapman <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
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Ray;

Thanks for bringing that up, i don't recall having heard of that book
before. I too am fascinated by maps and have a bit of a collection thereof.
BLM disposed of their topo maps in the Eugene office in the late 1980's and
I happened upon them at goodwill and bought the whole lot. I got home and
discovered I had paid about a nickel on the dollar of what they were marked
at since I bought up the works they charged me for a roll what I was
supposed to pay for each.

Anyway I also have a number of other maps, though I think the rats got dads
old metskers from about 1950 or so, I have his 1929 Siuslaw NF map which is
probably my greatest treasure.

the burning question for me I hope to find on a map someday is where the
Pass Creek Inn was situated. Was looking at "Knights of the Whip" at my
cousin's yesterday and it has Estes Stagecoach stop which had to be close. I
may be able to psych out the location from the 1880 Census if it was done in
geographich order and enough of the folks in that census had homesteads, but
a nice map with "Pass Creek Inn" here would be a lot surer. All I can be
sure of is it is somewhere between the Lane county Line and Drain on Pass
Creek.

good to hear from you, I think of you whenever I run across a Powell.

Les C

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Hi everyone!

I've been lurking on this list for a few years and have made a comment or
two when people have asked questions about old 'placenames' and where they
were located. The longtime researchers on this list have probably already
seen it but I just came across a book called "Maps of Historical Oregon" by
R. N. Preston printed in 1972. Western Guide Publishers of Corvallis, OR
were the publishers. Mr Preston seems to have done a number of these books
for the Northwest as I found other books on Washington and Idaho.

It might just be that I am fascinated with maps (always have been, always
will be) but I find this a very interesting publication. There are the
following maps:

Oregon 1804 - Very little is shown because this was apparently drawn and
used at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Oregon 1838 - The origin of this early map is unknow; however, it shows the
original spelling of many places, some long since forgotten.

Willamette Valley 1851 - Some interesting names appear on this map in the
Willamette Valley. Some are just interesting spelling variations and some
are names of places that were changed to something totally different.

Oregon 1859 - Very interesting as it was made just as Oregon was a newly
formed state.

Oregon 1863 -

Indian Battlegrounds 1863 - 1865

Military Roads

Oregon 1871

Oregon 1876

Oregon 1878

Oregon 1878

Oregon 1881

Oregon 1887

Union Pacific Overland Route Map 1890

Oregon 1900

Oregon 1913

Oregon 1921

Oregon Country and Counties

Oregon Military Camps and Forts 1851 - 1880

The 1878 map has a clear overlay that has makes it possible to compare
modern Oregon with Oregon of 1878. While the print on the maps tend to be
small (I find a magnifier to be immensely helpful) there is a lot of info to
be found.

The Corvallis Benton Public Library has a copy in the Reference section of
the library. My copy is a privately owned one that I have borrowed for two
or three weeks. Anyone who is interested in locating places on a map would
do well to take a close look at this publication.

Ray Powell

s.o. Clarence, s.o. Calvin Russell, s.o. Russell Bartholomew, s.o. Calvin
II, s.o. Calvin I, s.o. of Rowland Powell of MA

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