Tours by Request
JIM TOMPKINS has led many tours of the Barlow Road and the Oregon Trail in Oregon. He is also an Oregon City Historian with a vast library of pictures. Enclosed are just a few of them.If you have a school group or a group of teachers needing to teach Oregon Trail History, contact him by e-mail for particulars.

1885 Canemah
1885 picture of Willamette Falls & Paper Mill from Canemah

1885 Oregon City Main Street
1885 Photo of Main Street, Oregon City, OR

Report of the recent tour produced for the
  Northwest Chapter, Oregon - California Trails Association -- Sat. April 17, 1999

  • 8:30 a.m. Meet at the End  of  the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center (the big wagons)
  • Clackamas City, Hiram Straight House and Cemetery
  • Baker cabin, Moss Hill ruts
  • Holcomb Hill ruts
  • Abernethy Elm
  • 8th St. dock
  • Willamette Falls Locks
  • Canemah
  • Rose Farm, Ainsworth House, Mountain view cemetery, Elyville
  • McLoughlin House and Park
  • Oregon City University
  • Post tour pizza and conversation at Izzy's

Other tours "by request" could include:

  • Willamette District
  • Oregon City Main Street
  • Clackamas Indian Sites
  • the Donation Land Claims of Clackamas County
  • The old mills
  • McLoughlin Promenade
  • Champoeg and French Prairie

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