Santiam Wagon Road (Sisters, Oregon)
- Title
- Santiam Wagon Road (Sisters, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Creator
- Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road Company
- Creator Display
- Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road Company (builder/contractor)
- Description
- National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2010)
- View
- Segment 4, Contributing [Longbow/Walton Ranch Management Segment]. Linn County.
- Temporal
- 1860-1869 1920-1919
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works views (visual works) exterior views open spaces site (location) roads
- Location
- Cascadia >> Linn County >> Oregon >> United States Sisters >> Deschutes County >> Oregon >> United States Linn County >> Oregon >> United States Deschutes County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States
- Date
- 1866/1920
- View Date
- 2010
- Identifier
- pna_21833
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Rights Holder
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
- Source
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Is Part Of
- Willamette National Forest (Oregon); Deschutes National Forest (Oregon)
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Note
- Officially opened in 1866, the Santiam Wagon Road was listed in the National Register for its role in helping to connect Oregon’s two disparate sections, the Willamette Valley in the west and the Deschutes River Basin in the east, by providing a primary means of transportation across the central Cascade Mountains from the mid-nineteenth through early twentieth centuries. The Santiam Wagon Road helped contribute to the economic development on both the east and west sides of the Cascade Mountains by providing a more reliable route to facilitate trade, commerce, and communication. The road also helped shape the settlement patterns of central Oregon, as former Willamette Valley residents made the journey east to establish new homes, ranches, farms, and businesses. The Santiam Wagon Road served as an important transportation link in Oregon for over 50 years before becoming largely obsolete with the completion and opening of the modern McKenzie Highway (OR 242) in 1920. Source: SHPO. This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
