Luscher Farm & Cattle Pass

Historic barn, farm, cattle pass, and the site of two highway construction work camps... (more information on that soon)

Luscher Barn From HCRH, At SpeedHistoric Columbia River Highway, Oregon. December 9, 2014Copyright © 2014 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved

Lyn Topinka, Columbia River Images: Luscher Farm

Lusher Barn (1895): "He [Fred Luscher] was born up here, on the family's steep-side dairy farm, in 1895; ... He points out the barn, built the year he was born, but explains that the old house is gone, its three stories considered too old." [Interview with Fred Luscher, "The Oregonian", January 21, 1980]


Topinka, Luscher Farmhttp://columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/luscher_farm.html

Clarence E. Mershon, East of the Sandy: The Columbia River Highway

...the Luscher barn and home of the Fred Luscher family can be seen on the left... The Luscher family, Swiss immigrants, built the barn, a historic treasure, in the [18]80s. Luscher operated a dairy at this location and delivered milk to customers from Latourell eastward.

During the construction of the highway, Fred had two sons, Fritz and Ben, each of whom drove a team pulling a Fresno scraper. Albert Salzman, who worked with the boys, recalled a conversation he had with Fred Luscher regarding the $5.00 per day each boy earned. Albert related that Fred, rolling his hands together, said, in his heavily accented voice, "Every two days a tventy."


Mershon, East of the Sandy III, 46-47

Luscher Farm Cattle Pass

Built: 1914

30. CATTLEPASS NEAR BRIDAL VEIL FALLS. - Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, Multnomah County, ORDigital ID: (None) hhh or0386.photos.354681p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0386/photos.354681pReproduction Number: HAER ORE,26-TROUT.V,1--30Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.printhttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/or0386.photos.354681p/resource

Robert W. Hadlow, Columbia River Highway Historic District, National Historic Landmark Nomination

CS9. Structure: Cattle Pass, No. 4530

Location: HMP 27.75

Date: 1914

Designer: Oregon State Highway Department

Builder Pacific Bridge Company, Portland

Owner: Oregon Department of Transportation

This culvert consists of a single 8-foot reinforced-concrete deck slab span. The underpass also has concrete walls and floor. A local landowner required construction of this Cattle Pass so that his herd could migrate to both sides of a pasture bisected by the highway’s construction.


Hadlow, Landmark Nomination, 18-19
31. VIEW THROUGH CATTLEPASS NEAR BRIDAL VEIL FALLS. - Historic Columbia River Highway, Troutdale, Multnomah County, ORDigital ID: (None) hhh or0386.photos.354682p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.or0386/photos.354682pReproduction Number: HAER ORE,26-TROUT.V,1--31Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.printhttps://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/or0386.photos.354682p/resource/

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