Oregon City Falls-Formerly Known As Willamette Falls
“The largest falls in Oregon and the sixth in the United States by volume, Willamette Falls is one of the most significant natural features in the state. A Native salmon and lamprey fishery for at least eight thousand years, Willamette Falls drops thirty-five feet from the Willamette Valley into the Oregon City–West Linn basin. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the falls powered the earliest mills in the region and contributed to the growth of the first United States government in the Oregon Territory.”
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In 1889, Portland General Electric produced the nation’s first transmission of long distance electricity. Power traveled from Oregon City to the streetlights of Portland fourteen miles away. The falls was promoted as the “Niagara Falls of the West”.
