Cazadero, Oregon
Cazadero | |
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.jpg) Dam and fish ladder at Cazadero, c. 1904 | |
  Cazadero Location within the state of Oregon  Cazadero Cazadero (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 45°15′59″N 122°18′22″W / 45.26639°N 122.30611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Oregon |
| County | Clackamas |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1163860[1] |
Cazadero is an unincorporated historic locale in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.[1] Cazadero was a station on the Estacada interurban railway line of the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) and later Portland Electric Power Company (PEPCO), near where the power plant of the PEPCO-owned Cazadero Dam was located on the Clackamas River.[2]
The station was named by the original promoters of the line, likely after Cazadero, California.[2] Cazadero is a Spanish word meaning "a place for the pursuit of game".[2] Cazadero post office operated from 1904–1918;[2] it was located southeast of Cazadero station, near what is now Oregon Route 224 at 45°15′44″N 122°17′46″W / 45.262343°N 122.296195°W.[3]
Railway history
[edit]Service to Cazadero was routed via Lents and Gresham, along the Springwater Corridor, and the Gresham–Boring–Cazadero section was built in 1903–04, with electric interurban service reaching Boring in 1903[4] and Cazadero in 1904.[5] The line was built and operated by the Oregon Water Power and Railway Company (OWP), but by 1906 OWP had been taken over the PRL&P,[5][6] which in turn was reorganized as PEPCO in 1924.[7]
Cazadero station was located three stations beyond Estacada on the interurban line[6] and was the end of the line for many years, until PEPCO eventually developed the line farther up the river.[2] The interurban service was abandoned in 1933,[5] but the line remained intact and usable for freight service for many more years; for example, an excursion by railfans in an old interurban car covered the line in 1953.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cazadero (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ a b c d e McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 182. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
- ^ "Cazadero Post Office (historical)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Labbe, John T. (1980). Fares, Please: Those Portland Trolley Years. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers. pp. 108–9. ISBN 0-87004-287-4.
- ^ a b c Thompson, Richard (2008). Willamette Valley Railways, pp. 9, 11. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-5601-7.
- ^ a b Labbe (1980), pp. 121–123.
- ^ Labbe (1980), p. 141.
- ^ "Railway Fans On Last Ride; Old No. 1101 In Final Battle" (June 23, 1953). The Oregonian, Section 3, p. 5.
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