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Carrolls Bluff.
View heading north on Interstate 5.
Image taken January 28, 2007.
"... the upper point of a Island close under the Stard Side the high lands closeing the river on that Side ..."
[Clark, November 6, 1805, first draft]
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Carrolls, Carrolls Channel, and Carrolls Bluff ...
The small community of Carrolls lies along Carrolls Channel on the downstream side of Carrolls Bluff, and is approximately 5 miles upstream of the mouth of the Cowlitz River and the city of Longview, Washington. Carrolls Channel separates Cottonwood Island from the Washington shore. Carrolls Bluff is the highland located near the upstream end of Carrolls Channel and overlooks Cottonwood Island.
Lewis and Clark passed this area on November 6, 1805.
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"... the upper point of a Island close under the Stard Side the high lands closeing the river on that Side ..."
[Clark, November 6, 1805, first draft]
Upstream from Carrolls and Carroll Bluff is Kalama, Washington and the Kalama River.
Today Interstate 5 passes under the base of Carrols Bluff.
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Early Carrolls ...
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Various versions and spellings of the name "Carrolls" have existed
These variations included "Carlton", "Carroll", "Carrollton", and "Charlton".
According to Robert Hitchman in Place Names of Washington (1985), "Carrol's" was the name given to the small railroad community in 1873 by the Northern Pacific Railway, for Major Carroll, a very early settler. The name "Carol's" was in use however in 1871 (see "Carol's Landing" below).
In 1915 local residents began using the name "Carrolton". In 1941 the U.S. Board of Geographic Names made official "Carroll Channel", a decision which changed in 1960 when the U.S. Board of Geographic Names made "Carrolls" the official spelling for all three locations.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Records show a "Major Carroll" being given title to 31.98 acres in the SWSW Quarter of T7N R1W Section 19, and the SESE Quarter of T7N R2W Section 24 on July 2, 1866 (Sale-Cash Entry), and being given title to
48.4 acres in the south half of the NE Quarter of T7N R2W Section 24 on September 20, 1870 (Sale-Cash Entry). On November 1, 1871, Major Carroll was given title to 34 acres of the SESW Quarter of T7N R1W Section 19.
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Carrol's Landing ...
Excerpt from: The Weekly Argus, Thursday, February 23, 1871:
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"... The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has purchased Carrol's Landing,
three miles below Kalama, on the Columbia. ..."
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Views of Carrolls Bluff ...
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Carrolls Bluff.
View heading north on Interstate 5.
Cottonwood Island is visible on the left.
Image taken November 15, 2005.
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Carrolls Bluff.
View heading north on Interstate 5.
Image taken August 12, 2006.
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Cottonwood Island (left) and Carrolls Bluff (right).
View heading north on Interstate 5.
Image taken August 12, 2006.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, November 6, 1805, first draft ...
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a cold wet morning. rain Contd. untill [blank] oClock we Set out early [from Prescott Beach, Oregon, area] & proceeded on the Corse of last night &c.
N. 50° W. 1 mile on the Lard. Side under Some high land. bold rockey
Shore
N. 60° W. 1 mile under a bold rockey Shore on the Lard Side, opsd. the
upper point of a Island [Cottonwood Island]
close under the Stard Side the high lands closeing the river on that Side [Carrolls Bluff] above river wide
N. 75° W. 12 miles to a point of high land on the Lard Side, passed two
Lodges on the Lard Side at 2 miles in a bottom, The high
land [Carrolls Bluff] leave The river on the Stard. Side.
passd. a remarkable
Knob of high land on the Stard. Side at 3 miles
Close on the Waters edge [Mount Coffin, Lewis and Clark missed the Cowlitz River mouth] — ...
passed
a Island nearest the Lard. Side at 10 mile [Walker Island] the head of a Isd. on
Std. [Fisher Island] opposit High Cliffs [Green Point, location of today's Mayger, Oregon], with Several Speces of Pine Cedars
&c. arber vita & different Species of under groth.
N. 80° W. 2 miles under a high clift on the Lard Side [Green Point, location of today's Mayger Island] the lower point of the Island on Stard. [Fisher Island] opposit those hills are Covered thickly
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N. 88° W. 5 miles to a high Clift a little below an old village in the Stard.
bend [possibly Bunker Hill, the location of today's Stella, Washington] and opposit an old village on a Lard. point of a handsom & extensive bottom [Beaver Slough/Clatskanie River bottom].
passed a Island in the middle of
the river 3 miles long and one wide [Crims Island], passed a Small Island Close on the Stard. Side [Gull Island] & a lower point of a former Isld. below which the lands high & with Clifts to the river Stard. Side
S. 45° W. 5 miles under a Clift of verry high land on the Stard. side [possibly the Oak Point and Eagle Cliff area] wind
high a head. ...
S. 50° W. 1 mile under a high rockey Hill of pine.
The Indians leave us, Steep assent, Som Clifts
S. 75° W. 1 mile under a high hill with a bold rocky Shore, high assent
river about 1 mile wide
West 1 mile under a high Steep hill bold rockey Shore, Encampd
under the hill on Stones [near Cape Horn of Wahkiakum County]
Scercely land Sufficent between the
hills and river Clear of the tide for us to lie. Cloudy & rain all
wet and disagreeable. this evening made large fires on the
Stones and dried our bedding.
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Clark, November 6, 1805 ...
A cool wet raney morning we Set out [from their camp at Prescott Beach] early at 4 miles pass 2 Lodges of Indians in a Small bottom on the Lard Side I believe those Indians to be travelers. opposit is <the head of a long narrow Island close under the Starboard Side [Cottonwood Island], back of this Island two Creeks fall in about 6 miles apart,>
[Cowlitz River delta, Longview, Washington. Today the "two Creeks" are the Cowlitz River and Coal Creek Slough.]
and appear to head in the high hilley countrey to the N. E. opposit <this long Island is 2 others one Small and about the middle of the river> the other larger and nearly opposit its lower point [today the location of Walker Island and Lord Island complex], and opposit a high clift of Black rocks [Green Point, location of Mayger, Oregon] on the Lard. Side at 14 miles;
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here the hills leave the river on the Lard. Side, a butifull open and extensive bottom [Clatskanie River delta] in which there is an old Village, one also on the Stard. Side a little above both of which are abandened by all their inhabitents except Two Small dogs nearly Starved, and an unreasonable portion of flees-
The Hills and mountains are covered with Sever kinds of Pine-
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Some willow on the waters edge, passed an Island 3 miles long and one mile wide [Crims Island], <one> close under the Stard. Side below the <long narrow Island> below which the Stard Hills are verry from the river bank and Continues high and rugid on that Side all day,
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we came too to Dine on the long narrow Island [Crims Island] found the woods So thick with under groth that the hunters could not get any distance into the Isld.
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river about one mile wide hills high and Steep on the Std. no place for several Miles suffcently large and leavil for our camp we at length Landed at a place [Eagle Cliff and Cape Horn, Wahkiakum County] which by moveing the Stones we made a place Sufficently large for the party to lie leavil on the Smaller Stones Clear of the Tide Cloudy with rain all day we are all wet and disagreeable, had large fires made on the Stone and dried our bedding and Kill the flees, which collected in our blankets at every old village we encamped near
I had like to have forgotten a verry remarkable Knob [Mount Coffin, Longview, Washington, now destroyed] riseing from the edge of the water to about 80 feet high, and about 200 paces around at its Base and Situated <on the long narrow Island> [Longview, Washington area, the Cowlitz River delta]
above and nearly opposit to the 2 Lodges we passed to day, it is Some distance from the high land & in a low part of the Island [Cowlitz River delta]
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