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Joseph is a city in Wallowa County, Oregon, United States. Originally named Silver Lake and Lake City , the city formally named itself in 1880 for Chief Joseph (1840–1904) of the Nez Perce people .
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The Dr. J. W. Barnard Building and First National Bank of Joseph, at 12 - 14 Main St. in Joseph, Oregon, is a pair of historic adjacent buildings sharing a common interior wall. They were built by investment of physician Dr. J. W. Barnard, rancher Ludwig Knapper, and banker Frederick Scribner.
Wallowa Lake is a ribbon lake 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Joseph, Oregon, United States, at an elevation of 4,372 ft (1,333 m). Impounded by high moraines, it was formed by a series of Pleistocene glaciers .
Chief Joseph Mountain is located five miles south of Joseph, Oregon, in the Wallowa Mountains. It is set within the Eagle Cap Wilderness on land managed by Wallowa–Whitman National Forest . [ 2 ] The peak ranks as the 14th-highest summit in Oregon, [ 3 ] and the 8th-highest of the Wallowa Mountains. [ 2 ]
Iwetemlaykin State Heritage Site, a public park in the U.S. state of Oregon, is on the south edge of Joseph, along Oregon Route 351.Its name comes from the Nez Perce place name, Iwetemlaykin (pronounced ee-weh-TEMM-lye-kinn), which means "at the edge of the lake".
Map Baker County: 001: Baker City: 1862: Eastern portion of Wasco County: Named in honor of Edward Dickinson Baker, who died in combat while serving as Oregon senator. 16,912: 3,068 sq mi (7,946 km 2) Benton County: 003: Corvallis: 1847: Polk County: Named for Thomas Hart Benton, senator and advocate of U.S. annexation of the Oregon Country ...
Oregon Route 351 (OR 351) is an Oregon state highway running from Joseph to Wallowa Lake State Park. OR 351 is known as the Joseph-Wallowa Lake Highway No. 351 (see Oregon highways and routes ). It is 6.94 miles (11.17 km) long and runs north–south, entirely within Wallowa County .