A History of Wasco County

Timeline

Celilo Indians	Pre-History
	1700-1750
	1751-1775
	1776-1800
	1801-1810	1805 Lewis & Clark Expedition camps at Rock Fort
	1811-1820
	1821-1830
	1831-1835
	1836-1840	1838 Methodist Mission established at Dalles City
	1841-1845	1842 First Settlers arrive on the Oregon Trail
1848 Methodist Mission Closes 1848 Catholic St. Peter's Mission Opens	1846-1850	1846 Barlow Trail opens land route to Willamette Valley 1848 Oregon receives Territorial Status 1850 US Army opens Camp Drum
1854 Wasco County Created 1855 Treaty creates Warm Springs Indian Reservation	1851-1855	1854 Fort Drum becomes Fort Dalles
1857 Dalles City incorporated	1856-1860	1859 Oregon Statehood
	1861-1865
1867 Fort Dalles abandoned	1866-1870
	1871-1875	Imperial Stock Ranch founded
	1876-1880
	1881-1885
	1886-1890
1891 The "Great Fire" in The Dalles 1894 The "Great Flood" in The Dalles	1891-1895
1898 St. Peter's completed	1896-1900
	1901-1905
1906 Ezra Meeker visits The Dalles	1906-1910	1908-1912 Deschutes River Railroad "War"
	1911-1915	1915 The Dalles-Celilo Canal opens
1916 Prohibition Begins	1916-1920
	1921-1925	1925 Columbia Gorge Highway Opens to The Dalles
	1926-1930
	1931-1935
	1936-1940
	1941-1945
	1946-1950
	1951-1955
1957 The Dalles Dam completed	1956-1960
	1961-1965
	1966-1970
	1971-1975
	1976-1980
	1981-1985
	1986-1990
	1991-1995
	1996-2000	1997 Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Wasco County Museum opens

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6/9/2000