State of Oregon - Clackamas
County
Clackamas County. Bounded north by
Multnomah, east by Wasco, south by Marion, and west by
Marion, Yamhill and Washington. Area, 2,220 square
miles. Assessed valuation of property for 1874,
$2,250,000.
County seat, Oregon City. Principal towns:
Beaver, Eagle Creek, Marshfield, Milwaukie and Oswego.
The county comprises a most important section of the
State, extending from the summit of the Cascade Range on
the east, and includes the Willamette River within its
limits, which runs from south to north, near its western
border.
The eastern portion is mountainous, its
northeast cornerstone being laid beneath the lofty and
symmetrical Mount Hood, the most noble and conspicuous
territorial monument any political division can boast.
The valleys of the Willamette and other streams are
exceedingly fertile, and generally well cultivated. The
peculiar feature of the county is the great water-power
afforded by the falls of Willamette, at Oregon City,
where this large stream precipitates itself over a ledge
of rocks in a perpendicular fall of thirty feet,
affording for the uses of man a force calculated at one
million horse-power. The river being navigable above and
below, the broad valley exceeding fertile, forests of
the grandest character abounding, and extensive beds of
the richest iron ore known, all combine to give a value
to the manufacturing capacity furnished by the Falls
impossible to estimate.
The Oregon and California
Railroad crosses the county, giving a complete system of
intercommunication.
Officers: N. W. Randall, County Judge; James M. Frazer,
Clerk, Recorder and Auditor; H. Y. Thompson, District
Attorney; John T. Apperson, Sheriff and Tax Collector;
J. P. Ward, Treasurer; John Luelling, Assessor; S. L.
Campbell, Surveyor; H. straight, Jr., Coroner; W. W.
Moreland, Superintendent Public Schools.
Pacific Coast Business Directory
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Oregon Territory Index
Oregon Directory and Gazetteer
Source: Pacific Coast Business
Directory for 1876-78, Compiled by Henry G. Langley, San
Francisco, 1875.
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