Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" "McCord Fish Wheels"

Includes ... McCord Fish Wheel ...

Click image to enlarge Exhibit, McCord Fish Wheel photograph. Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, Washington. Image taken July 15, 2011. McCord and Kelly Fish Wheels ... According to McArthur and McArthur (2003), McCord Creek was named after pioneer W.R. McCord, who built the first fish wheels near the mouth of the stream. The McCord Fish Wheel was located upstream on the south side of Bradford Island while the fish wheel on the east bank of today's McCord Creek (then called Kelly Creek) was known as the Kelly Wheel. History ... The McCord wheel was built in 1882, the third one built on the Columbia. This wheel was soon joined by seventy-plus more built on both banks of the river from The Dalles to North Bonneville. The McCord Fish Wheel was built by William R. McCord and Frank Warren, and was located on the south side of Bradford Island, approximately near Columbia River Mile (RM) 145.5, near the location where today the salmon enter Bonneville Reservoir above the powerhouse. McCord Fish Wheel replica ... A replica of the McCord Fish Wheel can be seen at the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center museum, in Stevenson, Washington. "... Patent #257,960 issued in May 1882 was used to design the replicated fishwheel as well as a 1914 US Army Corps of Engineers drawing, photographs of the original wheel, and the advice of fishwheel expert, Fritz Cramer. ..." ... [Information sign, McCord Fish Wheel replica, 2011] Click image to enlarge Exhibit, McCord Fish Wheel. Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, Washington. Image taken July 15, 2011. Click image to enlarge Exhibit, McCord Fish Wheel. Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, Washington. Image taken July 15, 2011. Click image to enlarge Exhibit, McCord Fish Wheel. Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, Washington. Image taken July 15, 2011. Click image to enlarge Exhibit, McCord Fish Wheel. Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, Stevenson, Washington. Image taken July 15, 2011. From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ... Clark, November 2, 1805 ... Return to Menu

*River Miles [RM] are approximate, in statute miles, and were determined from USGS topo maps, obtained from NOAA nautical charts, or obtained from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers website, 2003 Sources: Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center, 2011; Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center website, 2011; McArthur, L.A., and McArthur, L.L., 2003, Oregon Geographic Names, Oregon Historical Society; Donaldson, I.J., and Cramer, F.K., 1971, Fishwheels of the Columbia, Binfords and Mort, Publishers, Philadelphia; Oregon State Archives website, 2011; U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database, 2011; All Lewis and Clark quotations from Gary Moulton editions of the Lewis and Clark Journals, University of Nebraska Press, all attempts have been made to type the quotations exactly as in the Moulton editions, however typing errors introduced by this web author cannot be ruled out; location interpretation from variety of sources, including this website author.

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