Clatskanie, Oregon
Route 2 / US 30
Taylor, Michael C. Road of Difficulties: Building the Lower Columbia River Highway. Wallowa, Oregon: Bear Creek Press. 2008. 51.
"Native American peoples used the word Tlatskani to refer to certain streams they followed to Tlats-kani, a point in the Nehalem Valley. Settlers carelessly applied the name to the river and then to the town. A 1959 brochure titles, 'A Friendly Welcome Awaits You This Centennial Year In Clatskanie,' (pronounced KLATS-kan-eye) explains that it is often referred to as Oregon's Holland. It draws its claim from the 11,366 acres of river-bottom farm land that has been reclaimed through an extensive system of dikes holding back the Columbia River. Clatskanie's dikelands are the heart of a well-developed agricultural industry for which the city of Clatskanie is the center. Homesteaded in the 1850s, it was known as trading magnet for the surrounding towns. Interesting enough, Clatskanie has also experienced success as a mink-raising lavender-growing mecca."
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Oregon State Archives: A 1940 Journey Across Oregon
CLATSKANIE (cor. Ind., Tlatskanie), 64.8 m. [West of Portland] (16 alt., 739 pop.), bears the name of a small tribe of Indians that formerly inhabited the region. The town is on the Clatskanie River near its confluence with the Columbia and is surrounded by rich bottom lands devoted to dairying and raising vegetables for canning. In 1852 E. G. Bryant took up the land upon which a settlement grew up with the name of Bryantsville. In 1870 the name of the town was changed to Clatskanie and it was incorporated as a city in 1891. State Fisheries Station No. 5, for restocking the river with fingerling salmon, is at this point.
At 65.2 m. [West of Portland] is the junction with State 47.
Left on State 47 over a mountainous grade into the Nehalem Valley and across a second ridge into the Tualatin Valley to FOREST GROVE and a junction with State 8 at 56.1 m.
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