Taylorville Park

Taylorville park, now vanished, on the old highway
Taylor, Michael C. Road of Difficulties: Building the Lower Columbia River Highway. Wallowa, Oregon: Bear Creek Press. 2008. 78.

"A small residential community, Taylorville once catered to highway travelers with an extensive auto park complete with bungalows, food, and even its own lake."


Taylor 78
This is a drawing I made from memory recently of the houses (that were cottages ) for rent when I was a kid in 1956, also the little store and gas station and the Rainbow Inn.
Photo posted to Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway by Larry Humphrey, October 30, 2022https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5810258002357868&set=p.5810258002357868 Accessed: November 4, 2022
Taylorville Auto Camp Lake and Park. Lower Columbia River Highway. Found this in an old photo album.
Posted by Robbie Mosby Nyara to Forgotten Oregon, October 7, 2022https://www.facebook.com/groups/ForgottenOregon/posts/3348859382048643

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Larry Humphrey, October 27, 2020:

Thank you Robbie. I use to live in the very house in the background or one beside of it in the years of 1954-56. I have the history of the man who built the cottages that became houses to rent. I believe your photo shows the house in my photo my folks and I lived in.


https://www.facebook.com/groups/ForgottenOregon/posts/3348859382048643 Accessed: November 4, 2022
I use to live in the Taylorville Park when a Kid back in 1954-56. The house you show in your photo I believe is a house my folks rented. This photo I have here shows it again.
Photo posted to Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway by Larry Humphrey, October 27, 2022https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/posts/1291405548316297, Accessed: November 4, 2022

For a location of where the photo above was taken of in 1917 of the cottages for rent, I know for sure this building was built at that same exact location, and at one time my sister and brother-in-law owned the 17 cottages behind this building I have shown here.


Photo posted to Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway by Larry Humphrey, October 29, 2022https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=5808135302570138&set=p.5808135302570138&type=3, Accessed: November 4, 2022

I lived in the Taylorville Park houses back in the years 1954-56 and so I know that road pretty well. As I stated before, I rode my bike with other kids halfway or more up the Bugby Loops and down which were about 2 1/2 miles from Taylorville. There were two businesses, a gas station / store and another was the Rainbow Inn with rooms for rent and place of eating on the first floor, all on your left headed east, through Taylorville, over the swamp, off the highway


Larry Humphrey, Past and Present Views Along the Columbia River Highway, July 11. 2020https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/posts/755609238562600 Accessed: November 15, 2022

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