Willamette Falls - Where the Future Began 

Theres no treasure more valuable than knowing family and the roots of where you've come from.

@@ryanlaws6182 That is so very very true I believe that we have a very Lost Society due to its culture of trying to rid itself from the past. People saying oh you should forget the past. Using slanderous things like saying you live in the past that makes you lost. It's not true what makes you lost and confused is not understanding the past, your past yes your own past like I've heard before people don't hate history they hate their own history. )STAYING LOST(

You have begun to look things up haven't you

@@janaprocella8268 LOL... Like a sponge for local information... hahahaha.

So here is more. The falls were a place where three tribes lived in relative peace. The Clackamas on the Clackamas side of the Willamette below the falls. The Multnomah on the other side of the river below the falls, and the Kalapuya up top.

My dad, Larry Williams, worked 20-hour days at Publisher's during the 1964 flood. I walked down to see the river.

They've supposedly been planning to do something with the Oregon City side of the falls for many years. I don't understand why nothing has been done.

@@anymaru As far as I know, the Grand Ronde Tribes, have purchased the site and will call it tumwata village.

Same here I used to go sturgeon fishing off the wall back in the 80s and 90s

So, where’s their video??

Mission Mill museum in Salem is a cool place to visit.

i agree! we should make a park around it like the Tom McCall Waterfront but for Willamette Falls

They, Willamette Falls Legacy project, is working on opening up the area.

Guys the paper machine in west linn is in full go mode!!! Trust me! 💯

Thank you for sharing. 🖖

@@barrydysert2974 So, you know what they built at Clackamette Park an End of Oregon Trails last Wagon circle! What else, a McDonald's!

Contrast that to the evil sweeping America now.

That's a wonderful story. A true story of families and happiness, real human lives of obstacles and triumphs.

That's filthy!

Sarcasm? Towns with paper mills I've been to stink.

I grew up in Silverton Oregon an my father worked at the paper mill at Salem and the smell of the paper mill could at times be times traveled quite a distance. I now live in Pennsylvania I miss Oregon...,

@@charlottedog5232 St. Helens had the stink of the Boise Cascade paper mill for so many years.

Oh the lovely fart smell of Oregon City. I do not miss it

Tesla’s fame for AC power is well deserved, but not for the first long distance transmission line in 1889 to Portland, which was DC.

Actually, Mikhail Divino-Dobrovolsky was as important as Tesla in the development of 3-phase transmission systems. Many others contributed as well. Steinmetz was as important as anyone. People are always bringing up Tesla’s name because it’s a cult. Westinghouse spent a great deal to develop AC power, much of it paid to Tesla. Tesla has received a great deal of recognition for his contributions. Others, not so much. Who knows of Shallenberger, for example?

I agree they burnt down in 2020 thanks to the Democrats.

Awesome

@@KLEARSKITHEKREEPER come on guys, Oregon City fall an 40lb salmon on line when you wish you were 40 lbs, all the names an details an not one thumbs up!? So much for getting another story out of me! And your reply was one word? Like to see you write response when your excited about something!

You wrote a whole other story

@@charlottedog5232 yeah, whole other story that No one liked, not one thumbs up?

That's awesome history Tim. I drive by the paper mill every day, wish I could have seen inside when it was running. Very important historical sight. Your dad sounds like a great guy.

Not really. The forests of oregon are doing well. Theres more trees now then there ever was. Even with the fires.

It seemed to me that he wasn't saying it as a proud statement. I believe there was remorse in his tone on that one point.

40 years 😳 oh wow haha I’ll be 80 years old! 😅

There are erratics [rocks carried by glaciers] from Montana as far south in the Willamette Valley as west of Salem. The height and force of the floods were that great.

Search for the Missoula Floods class by Nick Zentner. He explains how the flood waters ended up in the Willamette valley.

www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2014/04/blue_heron_mill_buyer_drops_ou.html

Jim B Thanks for the update! Wow... it's amazing how complex this is!

There are actually two paper mills on opposite sides of the river at this location. One is still producing specialty paper but the other one has been closed for a couple of years. It is up for sale but nothing has transpired yet.

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Probably rust. There's been plans for many years. And nothing has been done.

It comes from the Clackamas Chinook language, but the exact meaning is unclear. The “ette” ending comes from French. “Oregon” probably comes from an Amerind name for the Columbia River, meaning “River of the West.”

Probably because so much of the power generated in Or goes to Ca

It is because the leftist’s required our utilities to buy solar and wind power at .75 cents instead of normal market rate. Then they allowed the utilities to pass the costs on to the poor consumer. Remember the consumer always pays for bad policy’s.

Having lived in many parts of this country I can assure you Electricity is much cheaper here than in most of this nation. Portland`s rate is a bit higher than the rest of the state because we are still paying off the failed nuclear reactor on the Columbia.

I've lived in Hawaii for 5 years and am from CA and also have friends in WA. Oregon is by far the cheapest electric in the west coast. Unfortunately the leftists are destroying the sustainable electricity by destroying active dams.

Because Oregon allows monopolies. Politicians made deals like Kate Brown with Comcast . Unscrupulous

In volume.

No one owns the falls or the river. I am pretty sure that if you tried to walk across the top of the falls at any time you would get pounded into the rocks at the bottom of it and be seriously injured....

water_skipper that's a silly question, check at Wall Street

I had a rowboat 1969-1971 and we rowed out to the top of the falls in the summer, from the west side. The water all flowed down the locks or the hydro plant. Of course my parents didn't know I was out there. "We" sometimes included baby sister I was watching. We could swim.

Yeah I agree with you there! I hear they’re suppose to be restoring some of that beauty. Hopefully we’ll still be around to enjoy it. 😃

The plan is to turn it into a tourist attractions. I'd like to see the fish laders come back.

Interesting claim since the Willamette River itself is a major supplier of drinking water today. I would like to see this alleged report.

There's no such thing as a free lunch... nor free energy. Physics - keep learning.

To clarify last comment, Tesla proposed a massive antenna structure that would send power like radio waves that could be received by anyone. So no way to measure or charge customers. But of course the source power wasn’t free. I suppose Tesla thought government should pay for it thru taxes.

So did every other successful culture, including native Americans

@@pacificnorthwest9416 i think comparing white settlers to native indians seems a bit too stretched. The invasion and the subsequent raping of the land, the genocides of the natives, the extinction of tribes have been through all kinds of attempts for justification but they just dont stick. Maybe Its just not justifiable. They just dont sit right with the conscience, the logic gymnastic and bending of reason: the native tribe do this to each other, the native tribe were not the original owner, they too were immigrants during the Ice Age,sometime the typical white saviour - ' the white man brought development and the gospel, yeah, the price was high but the fruit is sweet, the native benefited from it too'. But in the end, the stealing of other people':s land remains hanging. Its especially uncomfortable for the conservative christian who cant stand the immigrants and like to think of themselves and their land as God' s design from the start. Land that needs to be stolen doesnt seems like a good design. I guess this question remains because in other lands, the invader eventually mix and assimilate with the original native eg. Saxon, Normans in Britain, many present day Islamic countries. But in case of America, the native remain isolated and holds no right to the mineral resources of the land. Rather, even in modern era,when oil was discovered in the little patchs of land they were allocated, they were again driven out or cheated out. So many broken promise, nullified treaty etc. In South Africa, the same thing took place but situation was reversed lately with Mandela and all. The other day, i saw the news anchor in conservatibe news channel Fox railing against the South African government for taking the farm lands of the white settlers and distribute them among the landless blacks. But the anchor term it as govt thefts. I heard fox is following the south africa closely because the channel owner is an aussie, Rupert Murdoch, who forced out many australian aborigine from their rehabilitation land and mineral rights through cheating, legal manipulation and sometime outright cutting off their access to the market by buying small land that are used as the only road.

Lol...yea whatever.