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#5 in "Signs Signs Everywhere a Sign" Series, this idea comes from the 1971 song titled "Signs" by a Canadian Rock Group the "Five Man Electrical Band" written by Les Emmerson, it had became a gold record :) WOOT!!! CONGRATS goes to (((Murloc5893 & SirSparksAlot))) for FTF way to go :) 🎈 .......... STATISTICS: for my Caches - FTF's > Murloc5893 #1 , SirSparksAlot #1
i been wanting to get some caches out here in Estacada an i been looking for just the right signs in just the right places for a cache an this one looked good for one, this is a NANO, Log Only, Initials Only Please, BYOP & You will need TTOTT, there is plenty of parking, be very stelthy cause this is a small community an it can be very active with muggles an there is houses nearby, this should be an easy find :) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ here is some History about Estacada : _____ Estacada is a spanish word and it means staked out or marked with stakes _______________ The Oregon Water Power Railway Co. began streetcar service from Sellwood to Estacada and Cazadero in 1905 on the Springwater Division. In 1907, the name changed to the Portland Railway Light and Power Co. _______________ Motto: Close to Everything...but away from it all. _______________ The Estacada post office opened in February 1904 and the city was incorporated in May 1905. _______________ The community formed as a camp for workers building a hydroelectric dam on the nearby Clackamas River that was to supply Portland with electricity. At the time, the river was relatively inaccessible by road, forcing the Oregon Power Railway Company to build a railway to the vicinity of the river to transport crews to the river for the construction of the dam. _______________ After the construction of the Hotel Estacada, the town became a weekend destination on the railroad line for residents of Portland. During the week, the train carried freight and work crews to and from Portland. Following the development of the dams, the city became a hub for the logging industry. _______________ In the early 20th century, a trolley line connected the town with downtown Portland. The railway line has been removed and there is no longer rail service to Estacada. _______________ Outside the city limits the land is mainly farmland, extending from the Springwater area to the south, Eagle Creek to the west, and the Mount Hood National Forest to the north and east. _______________ The Clackamas River, flowing by the city, drains into the Willamette River, thence the Columbia. There are four dams on the Clackamas River upstream of Estacada: River Mill Dam, Faraday Dam a diversionary dam, North Fork Dam, and Oak Grove Dam, a diversionary structure on the Oak Grove Fork Clackamas River. Portland General Electric operates all four dams and related infrastructure. The former Cazadero Dam on the river was destroyed by the Christmas flood of 1964 and reconstructed as Faraday Dam. After the building of the dams, the primary base for Estacada's economy has been lumber. As the timber industry has declined, the economy of the city has been depressed in recent years. However, a thriving arts community has been building up over the years. _______________ Estacada’s History has been a wild road of ups and downs some might say is a reflection of the roaring rapids of the adjacent Clackamas River. _______________ In the mid 1800’s small communities of pioneers popped up in the foothills of Mount Hood wiping out the Native Clackamas Indians with disease. Then railroad tracks serving the dam builders of the early 20th century pushed through the foot hills up the mountain creating dams that still power Portland to this day. As the building slowed, the workers left and the work camps turned in to a small tourism community that became Portland’s play ground known as Estacada Oregon. _______________ Society , operated by the descendants of early settler Philip Foster. "Estacada is unlike any other town," Hurd says. "It would not exist without PGE and its predecessors." Between 1905 and 1958, four hydroelectric power dams were constructed on the Clackamas River. By the early 1900s, Portland was growing fast, Hurd explains, and the city was desperate for power to run its trolley system. PGE had numerous predecessors, and in the first half of the 20th century those companies shared a common goal - they wanted to generate power from the Clackamas River. The roads and rail lines created by the power companies that eventually became PGE allowed more people to enter and access the area. For many decades logging also played a major role in the region. In the 1950s, as many as 200 to 700 log trucks could pass through Estacada on a given day. When paved roads reached the town and penetrated deeper into the woods, Estacada became a mill town. Log trucks rumbled through town one after another in the 1950s and 1960s with logs so big that three of them often made a load. In the boom times you could smell and hear the saw mill day and night. If the mill shut down or the trucks stopped rolling, it was Sunday. Estacada is still the departure point for logging in the Clackamas River watershed, but the timber industry no longer dominates so thoroughly. The area is as well known today for growing Christmas trees as for harvesting timber. _______________ Local attractions include Eagle Fern Park, with its old growth cedar and Douglas-fir trees. Nearby is the Phillip Foster Farm, where pioneers on the Oregon Trail, via the Barlow Road, first arrived in the Willamette River drainage area. _______________ The Estacada area’s banks and fertile valleys adjacent to the Clackamas River were seasonal Clackamas Indian settlements providing abundant fishing, hunting and berry harvesting for years. Estacada was sparsely settled by emigrants arriving on the Barlow Road segment of the Oregon Trail in the mid-to-late 1800s, unlike nearby Eagle Creek, which was a thriving community with a dance hall, saloons, a store, mills, schools and a post office. _______________ Estacada came into its own in 1903 with the building of Cazadero Dam, the first hydroelectric power plant on the Clackamas River, followed by Faraday and River Mill dams. The railroad built to access the dam and the small community of Cazadero, opened up the vast wilderness of Douglas fir and western red cedar to logging, as well as providing transportation for agriculture and passengers. By the 1920s Estacada was a resort destination, far eclipsing Eagle Creek, with a riverside park, dance hall, a grand hotel, stores, saloons, and five electric trolleys daily to and from Portland. Amazingly, the town also was the largest exporter of ginseng in the United States. _______________ Rail use declined with the advent of the automobile and the Great Depression took its toll on agriculture export and tourism. Logging kept the economy vital until the 1970s. __________________________________________________ for more history info check this site out _____ https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://pnwphotoblog.com/history-of-estacada-faraday-and-cazadero-oregon/&ved=0ahUKEwigueeS-JzRAhVMImMKHUALCbYQFghaMAk&usg=AFQjCNEow0hKcNKIynREX7f1CSFrWnKiCw&sig2=DeK_8pTX7Hc-OPQZ4rO8Zw
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