Praying for Oregon Counties: Wasco
Image by ljlabarthe from Pixabay Shaniko,OR Trust in the Lord , and do good; Dwell in the land , and feed on His faithfulness. Psalm 37:3 We began by praying for Clackamas, a county with a lot of early history. Wasco county is just to the east of Clackamas and was also created early in the formation of Oregon state by the Oregon Territorial Legislature in 1854 out of the parts of Clackamas, Marion, Lane, and Linn counties that were east of the Cascade Mountains. It was named for the Wasco, a Chinook tribe that lived in the area. Celilo Falls, on the Columbia River in Wasco county, was a gathering place and trading center for many western tribes for thousands of years. Celilo Falls was flooded by the creation of The Dalles dam in 1957. I have a family connection with Wasco county, since my father, as a young boy, lived with his family on...