Captain Lewis Love
Historic Columbian Cemetery was established in 1857. It was once called Love cemetery for Captain Lewis Love, an early pioneer of the Columbia slough area and one of Portland's first millionaires. He came to Oregon in 1849 with his wife and 7 children. He was a farmer, grocery store owner, and Justice of the Peace. He operated extensive ferry services (hence the title "Captain"), ran grist and saw mills, a steamboat business, and was a hotel owner.
Here is a paragraph from his autobiography:
"After I had burnt off a great deal of timber . . . I took a notion to cut the timber in saw logs and bring it to Portland, which consisted of about 15 or 20 buildings at that time. It was expressed along the river that I was a big fool for trying to get out saw logs when there wasn't a boat on the river to tow with. But I had quite a number of oxen. I thought I could put the logs in the Slough and raft them as cheap as I could burn them. There came a high water the next summer, and I had in about 300,000 ft. and started them for Portland. . . Before starting I went to Vancouver and got four old government tents, put up masts on the rafts and stayed them with lines and stretched these tents up for sails. In a little over four hours we landed in Portland. Soon after this there was quite a number of other fools in the same business."
Captain Love's isolated grave is just a step N of the cache, next to the grey building and surrounded by a small fence.
If you would like to read more about the history of Columbian Cemetery and other notable Portlanders buried here, check out the link above.
This geocache is placed by the kind permission of: savecolumbiancemetery.org. They ask that we follow their posted rules (also in the link above under Our Mission), seek the cache in daylight hours, and that there be absolutely NO NIGHT CACHING. So do not even think of hopping the gates and going after this one at night, or my wrath and the ghost of Captain Lewis will be hard on your heels.
FTF gets the glory and whatever swag.
**Congratulations to Warnock3d for FTF**