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Arches National Park
Visit Arches and discover a landscape of contrasting co...
Naval Live Oaks
The live oak (Quercus virginiana) has evergreen leav...
Barlow Summit
Ascending from the White River, the emigrants turned up Barlo...
Devil's Backbone
The Barlow Road ascended the south flank of Mt. Hood and desc...
Laurel Hill
Laurel Hill was infamous in the guidebooks used by emigran...
Tygh Valley
The road from the Dalles to Tygh Valley was very hilly. ...
East Fork of the Salmon River
Following the scouting expedition, the trail blazed into the ...
The Dalles
The Barlow Road was started because the wagon train that Samu...
Wrought Iron Gate created by Philip Simmons
Local artisans crafted many of Charleston’s famous o...
Watches and locket belonging to Harry and Harriette Moore
These watches and locket belonged to Civil Rights activist...
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Arches National Park
Visit Arches and discover a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures unlike any other in the world. The park has over 2,000 natural stone arches, in addition to hundreds of soaring pinnacles, massive fins and giant balanced rocks. This ...
Naval Live Oaks
The live oak (Quercus virginiana) has evergreen leaves, elliptical in shape and olive-green in color. Its leathery trunk and crooked branches are dark reddish brown and can grow 40 to 50 feet tall. Often covered with Spanish moss, it is ...
Barlow Summit
Ascending from the White River, the emigrants turned up Barlow Creek to try to drive on as far as the base of Barlow Road. The forest was dense. Nowhere could the starving livestock find fodder. Repeatedly the emigrants tried to ...
Devil's Backbone
The Barlow Road ascended the south flank of Mt. Hood and descended the watersheds of the Zigzag and Sandy Rivers. Emigrants entered the valley below by following the long ridge to the east, called the Devil's Backbone, and then descended ...
Laurel Hill
Laurel Hill was infamous in the guidebooks used by emigrants heading west. Originally a series of at least three chutes, wagons were tied to trees by ropes, or held back in the steep chutes by dragging big logs. This was ...
Tygh Valley
The road from the Dalles to Tygh Valley was very hilly. The valley was small, but fertile, and inhabited by the Tygh valley tribe.
On October 1, 1845, Barlow and three men scouted ahead of their company and ...
East Fork of the Salmon River
Following the scouting expedition, the trail blazed into the drainage of the East Fork of Salmon River, crossed that stream, and headed almost due north on an ash flow toward the base of Mount Hood.
The Dalles
The Barlow Road was started because the wagon train that Samuel Barlow and William Rector were in reached the Dalles too late in the fall to head down the Columbia and Willamette Rivers to Oregon City – the last of ...
Wrought Iron Gate created by Philip Simmons
Local artisans crafted many of Charleston’s famous ornamental gates, like the gate pictured above by Philip Simmons. Decorative wrought-iron gates, fences, and railings are an integral part of Charleston’s identity, and the city’s African American craftsmen played a strong role ...
Watches and locket belonging to Harry and Harriette Moore
These watches and locket belonged to Civil Rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore and were inside their Mims, Florida home the night they were murdered for civil rights activism. This couple’s personal items serve as a stark reminder that those ...
