Standing in the Gap for Oregon

Sherman County Wind Turbines He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind to blow. Psalms 78:26 As you drive I-84 along the Columbia River going east, Sherman County is next after Wasco County and was, in fact, created out of a portion of Wasco County in 1889. It was named after the Civil War general, William Tecumseh Sherman. I associate Sherman County with Biggs Junction, a “census-designated place” at a crossroads where you can turn south onto US 97 to reach the interior of the county and the incorporated towns of Wasco and Moro, or turn north to cross the Columbia into eastern Washington. While we often stop for lunch and/or gas there, I don’t recall ever turning south at Biggs Junction. We are usually traveling to visit family in Washington, and cross the Columbia there on the Sam Hill Memorial Bridge. The pioneers on the Oregon Trail did turn south, though, some electing to not continue on up the Columbia to the Willamette Valley, instead...

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...