Cazadero is an
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historic locale in
Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.
Cazadero was a station on the
Estacada interurban railway line of the
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company
The Portland Railway, Light and Power Company (PRL&P) was a railway company and electric power utility in Portland, Oregon, United States, from 1906 until 1924.Thompson, Richard M. (2006). ''Portland's Streetcars'', pp. 57 and 99. Arcadia Publis ...
(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
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.
The station was named by the original promoters of the line, likely after
Cazadero, California
Cazadero (Spanish for "hunting ground") is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Sonoma County, California, United States with a population of 354 in 2010. The downtown of Cazadero consists of two churches, a ...
.
[ ''Cazadero'' is a ]Spanish
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word meaning "a place for the pursuit of game".[ Cazadero post office operated from 1904–1918;][ it was located southeast of Cazadero station, near what is now Oregon Route 224 at .]
Railway history
Service to Cazadero was routed via Lents and Gresham, along the Springwater Corridor
The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring through Gresham to Portland, where it ends south of the Eastbank Es ...
, and the Gresham– Boring–Cazadero section was built in 1903–04, with electric interurban
The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 ...
service reaching Boring in 1903[Thompson, Richard (2008). ''Willamette Valley Railways'', pp. 9, 11. ]Arcadia Publishing
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. . 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,[Labbe (1980), pp. 121–123.] which in turn was reorganized as PEPCO in 1924.[Labbe (1980), p. 141.]
Cazadero station was located three stations beyond Estacada on the interurban line[ and was the end of the line for many years, until PEPCO eventually developed the line farther up the river.][ The interurban service was abandoned in 1933,]railfan
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Rai ...
s in an old interurban car covered the line in 1953.["Railway Fans On Last Ride; Old No. 1101 In Final Battle" (June 23, 1953). ''The Oregonian'', Section 3, p. 5.]
References
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Unincorporated communities in Clackamas County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon
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