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The Crowston Place ca 1898Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 94.
"Directly across the highway, the remodeled former Hicks family home stands. Just beyond (south of the highway), George and Carrie Gill built a small store that did not survive the '20s."
"Directly across the highway, the remodeled former Hicks family home stands. Just beyond (south of the highway), George and Carrie Gill built a small store that did not survive the '20s."
Mershon, East of the Sandy III, 34
"Commercial development at the Heights was limited until the highway came through. George and Carrie (Emily) Gill had a store on the Wire Trail near Chanticleer Point. The upstairs served as a dance hall where patrons danced a quadrille, a reel, a polka or a waltz to fiddle music provided by the author's grandfather, James Clarence Wilson. The store served as headquarters for the 'Bones and Feather Club,' an organization dedicated to stealing poultry after which the culprits invited the victim to a dinner featuring the purloined fowl. Close by, the Chanticleer Inn opened in 1912, a year before construction of the highway commenced. ... Local farmers earned "side money" pulling motorists out of mud holes."
"Commercial development at the Heights was limited until the highway came through. George and Carrie (Emily) Gill had a store on the Wire Trail near Chanticleer Point. The upstairs served as a dance hall where patrons danced a quadrille, a reel, a polka or a waltz to fiddle music provided by the author's grandfather, James Clarence Wilson. The store served as headquarters for the 'Bones and Feather Club,' an organization dedicated to stealing poultry after which the culprits invited the victim to a dinner featuring the purloined fowl. Close by, the Chanticleer Inn opened in 1912, a year before construction of the highway commenced. ... Local farmers earned "side money" pulling motorists out of mud holes."
Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 88.
Remodeled Hicks Home (2014)Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Viewpoint. Historic Columbia River Highway. Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Oregon. January 6, 2014 Copyright © 2013 A. F. Litt , All Rights Reserved
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