USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Not too far past the end of the Barlow Road, the wagon trains camped a final time on the broad creekside meadow near the Willamette River. This spot, Oregon City’s Abernethy Green, marked the traditional End of the Oregon Trail.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oregon City was the end of the trail for many because it was where land claims were granted for Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Oregon Trail was a wagon road stretching 2170 miles from Missouri to Oregon’s Willamette Valley.

Detailed explanation-4: -Oregon City became the commercial and cultural center of the new territory, site of the largest mills in area, and home to the first opera house, bootleg moonshine still, and newspaper published in English west of the Continental Divide.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Oregon, the trail passed through the Powder River and Grande Ronde Valleys, over the Blue Mountains, and down the Columbia River to The Dalles, where many rafted their wagons and belongings to the lower Columbia River Valley.