Английская Википедия:Blalock, Oregon
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Blalock was an unincorporated community located in the Columbia River Gorge in Gilliam County, Oregon, United States.[1] The town displaced a Native American settlement originally named Táwash.[2] Blalock was located about Шаблон:Convert west of Arlington on Interstate 84/U.S. Route 30 at the mouth of Blalock Canyon.[3][4] Blalock is still the name of a station on the Union Pacific Railroad (originally the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, or OR&N).[4][5]
History
The community was named for the farm of Dr. Nelson G. Blalock, a Civil War veteran who had pioneered in the Walla Walla area.[4][6] He established an agricultural operation of several thousand acres on the flat land here along the Columbia River.[4][6] The area was first settled in 1879, and Blalock post office was established in 1881.[4][5] The town was platted in 1881 by the Blalock Wheat Growing Company.[6] The first two buildings, a railroad station and a warehouse, were built by A. J. McLellan, OR&N superintendent of the construction of bridges and buildings.[6] By 1884, the community was shipping wheat and there were daily stagecoaches to Heppner; the population was 50.[5] People and businesses listed in the Polk Directory at that time included two clergymen, a saloon, a wagonmaker, a ferryman, a hotel, a general store, a lawyer, and a dealer in lumber, coal, and feed.[5] In 1904, the town handled about 750,000 bushels of wheat.[6] By 1905, the town had two grain warehouses, a hotel, a general store, a livery and stage stable, a real estate office and an agricultural implement factory.[6] In 1940, Blalock had a population of 19.[7] The post office closed in 1959.[4] In 1968, the community was inundated by the backwaters from the John Day Dam.[4]
See also
References
External links
- Historic image of the Blalock Diner from Salem Public Library
- Historic image of a grain elevator in Blalock from University of Oregon digital archives
- Images of Blalock from Flickr
- Blalock Canyon from Lewis & Clark's Columbia River
- Blalock, Nelson Gales from NCpedia
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- 1881 establishments in Oregon
- Populated places established in 1881
- 1968 disestablishments in Oregon
- Former populated places in Oregon
- Geography of Gilliam County, Oregon
- Ghost towns in Oregon
- Populated places disestablished in 1968
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