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Dalles City (sternwheeler)
Dalles may refer to: * The Dalles, Oregon, a city in the U.S. ** The Dalles Dam ** Fort Dalles ** The Dalles High School ** The Dalles Municipal Airport, or Columbia Gorge Regional Airport ** Dalles Formation, a geologic formation * Dallesport, Washington, a CDP across the Columbia from The Dalles * Dalles of the St. Croix River, in Minnesota and Wisconsin, U.S. * John A. Dalles, an American clergyman and hymnwriter See also * * Dallas (other) * Dulles (other) * Dalle, a surname * Dalles des Morts ('Death Rapids'), a former stretch of the Columbia River in Canada {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dalles, Oregon
The Dalles is the largest city of Wasco County, Oregon, United States. The population was 16,010 at the 2020 census, and it is the largest city on the Oregon side of the Columbia River between the Portland Metropolitan Area, and Hermiston. History The site of what is now the city of The Dalles was a major Native American trading center. The general area is one of the continent's most significant archaeological regions. Lewis and Clark camped near Mill Creek on October 25–27, 1805, and recorded the Indian name for the creek as ''Quenett''. Etymology The name of the city comes from the French word ''dalle'', meaning either "sluice", akin to English "dale" and German ''T'' 'h'''al'', "valley", or "flagstone", referring to the columnar basalt rocks carved by the river (in ''voyageur'' French used to refer to rapids), which was used by the French-Canadian employees of the North West Company to refer to the rapids of the Columbia River between the present-day city and Celilo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
