unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
Oregon
Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...
, United States. It is the site of the historic Niagara County Park, the first park to be created by the Marion County Park and Recreation Commission.
The park consists of a historic dam, begun in the 1890s. A survey by the
University of Oregon
The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a Public university, public research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and gra ...
's engineering department reported that work on the dam had been abandoned by November 1904. Water Power on the Santiam River ' by E.H McAlister, Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Oregon. November 1904.