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March 26, 1973 (19130 Lot Whitcomb Drive [7: Oregon City: John C. Ainsworth (1822–1893), businessman and co-founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, built this house in 1851, where he lived until Portland supplanted Oregon City as the commercial center of the Northwest.
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Lake Oswego, Oregon" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Clackamas people once occupied the land that later became Lake Oswego, [7] but diseases transmitted by European explorers and traders killed most of the natives. Before the influx of non-native people via the Oregon Trail, the area between the Willamette River and Tualatin River had a scattering of early pioneer homesteads and farms.
During the time that Lake Oswego was an industrial town, the park was the location of Lake Oswego's China Town district. Built in 1929, the two-story craftsman house was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places listings in 1996.
It is the third-largest county in Oregon. Lake County ranges in elevation from 4,130 to 8,446 feet (1,259 to 2,574 m). [17] The highest point in Lake County is Crane Mountain. The mountain is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the California border.
Lake Grove was platted in 1912 as a development on the western end of Oswego Lake, near the railroad line. That line, the Portland, Eugene and Eastern Railway (PE&E), was part of the East Side Local route of the "Red Electric" passenger service beginning in 1914, a service continued by Southern Pacific after it bought PE&E a year later.