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Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city got its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the locks in 1875, construction began in 1878, and the locks were completed on November 5, 1896.
Listed in order going downstream: British Columbia: . Headwaters to the Canada–United States border: . Canal Flats; Fairmont Hot Springs; Windermere; Invermere; Radium Hot Springs ...
The hotel opened in 1978 as the DoubleTree Hotel Jantzen Beach. It was sold to Red Lion in the late 1990s. [citation needed] Howard Dietrich Jr. owned the hotel, as of 2012. [3] The hotel was sold to IHG in early 2022 and soon became the Holiday Inn Portland-Columbia Riverfront. [4]
The Oregon Portage Railroad was the first railroad in the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] It was located on the south bank of the Cascades canal of the Columbia River. [3]The railroad originally ran 4.5 miles (7.2 km) [4] [5] from Tanner Creek (near where Bonneville Dam was later built) to the Cascade Locks, which were under construction in the later years of the railroad's operation.
For years the Hudson's Bay Company successfully maintained control of the Columbia River and American attempts to gain a foothold were fended off. In the 1830s, American religious missions were established at several locations in the lower Columbia River region. In the 1840s a mass migration of American settlers undermined British control.
Bonneville Lock and Dam / ˈ b ɒ n ə v ɪ l / consists of several run-of-the-river dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1. [6] The dam is located 40 miles (64 km) east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.