Warrendale is an
unincorporated community in
Multnomah County, Oregon
Multnomah County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 815,428. Multnomah County is part of the Portland–Vancouver– Hillsboro, OR–WA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Thou ...
, United States.
It is located about a mile east of
Dodson and about west of
Bonneville in the
Columbia River Gorge on
Interstate 84/
U.S. Route 30.
It is across the
Columbia River
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from
Beacon Rock.
The community was the site of an important salmon cannery founded in the 1870s.
History
Warrendale was named for
Frank M. Warren Sr., a prominent
Portland
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citizen and a pioneer of the
salmon canning industry in Oregon.
Warren died in the sinking of the in April 1912.
[
Warrendale post office ran from 1894 to 1942;][ today the community is within the ]Cascade Locks
Cascade Locks is a city in Hood River County, Oregon, United States. The city took its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan for the l ...
ZIP code. Warrendale station on the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company line (today owned by Union Pacific) was established in 1916.[
In 1915, the community had two salmon ]canneries
Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans). Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although un ...
, a large pulp and paper mill, and a public school, none of which remained by 1990.[ Warrendale students later attended Bonneville Grade School in Dodson, which closed in 1996.][ Frank Warren's cannery used a ]fish wheel
A fish wheel, also known as a salmon wheel, is a device situated in rivers to catch fish which looks and operates like a watermill. However, in addition to paddles, a fish wheel is outfitted with wire baskets designed to catch and carry fish fro ...
upstream at Hamilton Island on the Washington side of the river to harvest salmon, which were transported down the island using a tramway, the remnants of which are still located in Fort Cascades Historic Site.[ The tramway operated until 1930, and fish wheels were outlawed in Washington in 1934.][ Warren also owned a cannery in Cathlamet, Washington.][
In the 1930s, Warrendale was considered as a site for the Bonneville Dam, eventually built a few miles upstream at Bonneville.
In February 1996, a series of massive debris flows, resulting from the same severe weather that caused flooding in the Willamette Valley, occurred between Dodson and Warrendale, destroying homes and blocking the railroad and I-84 for several days.
]
Notable people
Warrendale was the home of Frederick H. Kiser, an early Oregon photographer, who, with his brother Oscar H. Kiser, established Kiser Scenic Photo Studio there in 1903.[ Fred H. Kiser was the official photographer for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, and was noted for his images of Crater Lake and his promotional work for the Great Northern Railway.]
See also
*Steamboats of the Columbia River
:''This article concerns steamboats operating between Tri-Cities, Washington and the Pacific Ocean. For boats on the river's upper reaches, see Steamboats of the Columbia River, Wenatchee Reach, Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay River ...
References
Further reading
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External links
Historic image of Warren Cannery at Warrendale
from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
Historic image of Warrendale
from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
Images of Warrendale
from Flickr
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Unincorporated communities in Multnomah County, Oregon
1894 establishments in Oregon
Populated places established in 1894
Unincorporated communities in Oregon