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    The Willamette Falls Locks are a lock system on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1873 and closed since 2011, they allowed boat...
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    and closed since 2011, the Willamette Falls Locks allowed boat traffic on the Willamette to pass into the main Willamette Valley. Native American oral...
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    (August 2006). "Conquering the Falls: The Willamette Falls Locks". History of the Willamette Falls. Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation. Archived from...
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    Falls Paper Company, the T.W. Sullivan hydroelectric plant, and the Willamette Falls Locks and canal. In its operation from 2000 to 2011, the mill produced...
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    driven by propellers. Locks were completed at Willamette Falls in 1873. This eliminated the need for the portage at Willamette Falls and established an "open...
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    Pacific Northwest. The Willamette Falls Locks and canal were completed in 1873, making the waterfall passable by river traffic. The locks closed in 2011 with...
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    of the same year, she operated on the Willamette River, including excursions through the Willamette Falls Locks at Oregon City, and was moored at Portland's...
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    downstream from the 40 ft (12 m) tall Willamette Falls and the Willamette Falls Locks, the oldest navigational locks in the United States. Downstream from...
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    Oregon City, Oregon (category Populated places on the Willamette River)
    between Oregon City and Gladstone. The Willamette Falls Locks in West Linn were the first multi-lift navigational locks in the United States and are now a...
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    Governor Grover (sternwheeler) (category Steamboats of the Willamette River)
    sternwheel steamboat that ran on the Willamette River during the 1870s. Because of the completion of the Willamette Locks in late 1872, it was possible for...
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    which is still operating. The oldest part of the dam is the 1873 Willamette Falls Locks. The rest was built later for Station A. The first batch of generators...
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    Bernard Goldsmith (category Willamette River Transportation Company)
    Willamette River Navigation Company, as well as the Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Company, which was responsible for building the Willamette Falls...
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    the Portland to Oregon City run, and Active and Echo worked above Willamette Falls from Canemah (now Oregon City) to Corvallis. Nicholas Haun (also seen...
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    the Pacific Northwest in June 1842, navigating up the Columbia and the Willamette River to just below Oregon City, which was the largest settlement in the...
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  • from the original on September 8, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2013. "Willamette Falls Locks". HPLO. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013. Retrieved...
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    Oswego Lake (category Willamette River)
    the first trip. In 1873, the completion of the Willamette Falls Locks made traffic past Willamette Falls possible without portage; since the Tualatin was...
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    Pomona (sternwheeler) (category Steamboats of the Willamette River)
    points above the Willamette falls from August 1 (or late July) to October 1. The reason for the suspension was that the Willamette Falls Locks would be closed...
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    first governor of Oregon under the provisional government based in the Willamette Valley, an area later a part of the American state of Oregon. He traveled...
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    Gladstone, Oregon (category Populated places on the Willamette River)
    completion of the Willamette Falls Locks. Ships no longer needed to dock and unload goods and passengers for portage around the falls. The remaining town...
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    Multnomah Falls is a waterfall located on Multnomah Creek in the Columbia River Gorge, east of Troutdale, between Corbett and Dodson, Oregon, United States...
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  • Canby Ferry to Portland in April 2012 due to the closure of the Willamette Falls Locks. In January 2013, working with Multnomah County government, Omega...
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    Canemah, Oregon (category Steamboats of the Willamette River)
    Oregon City was a separate settlement, and was located below the Willamette Falls above which Canemah sits. The two towns were connected by a path, later...
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    Senator (sternwheeler) (category Willamette Transportation Company)
    of cement to Oregon City to be used in the construction of the Willamette Falls Locks. On the morning of November 30, 1871, while on the way downriver...
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    (September 5, 2017). "Multnomah Falls Engulfed in Flames as Out-of-Control Wildfire Races West Through Gorge". Willamette Week. Retrieved September 6, 2017...
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    Beaver (1873 sternwheeler) (category Willamette Transportation Company)
    built in 1873 for the Willamette Transportation Company. In 1875 Beaver passed into the ownership of the Willamette Falls Locks and Canal Company. Beaver...
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    Willamette Chief was a sternwheel steamboat built in 1874 for the Willamette River Navigation Company. The builders of Willamette Chief intended her to...
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    Willamette (Chinese: 威林密; pinyin: Wēilínmì) was an American steamer that was later purchased by China and saw action during the Taiping Rebellion. Willamette...
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    River Cascade Locks and Canal, the first navigation locks built around the rapids, before the construction of Bonneville Dam Celilo Falls, a more significant...
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    Miller began running a flatboat between Canemah just above Willamette Falls on the Willamette River and Dayton, on the Yamhill River. Miller built a flatboat...
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    District in 1987. In 1896, prior to this damming of the river, the Cascade Locks and Canal were constructed, allowing ships to pass the Cascades Rapids,...
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