Lewis & Clark's Columbia River - "200 Years Later" "Murals ... North Bonneville, Washington"

Includes ... North Bonneville ... Fort Rains ... "Middle Blockhouse" ... Sternwheeler "Regulator" ...

Click image to enlarge Welcome sign, North Bonneville, Washington. Image taken August 22, 2011. North Bonnevile Murals ... Two murals are located in North Bonneville, just off of Cascade Drive. One depicts the Fort Rains (the "Middle Blockhouse") of the Columbia River, and the other depicts the "Regulator", one of the Sternwheelers which made the journey from the Bonneville Dam to The Dalles, Oregon. North Bonneville Murals Fort Rains or "Middle Blockhouse" ... Sternwheeler "Regulator" ... Fort Rains or "Middle Blockhouse" ... To defend the "Middle Cascades", in October 1855 the U.S. Army built a blockhouse called "Fort Rains" (also seen spelled "Raines"). The location of this structure was on the north bank of the Columbia at the lower end of the portage around the Cascade Rapids, just above the present location of the Bonneville Dam and below the Bridge of the Gods and Sheridan Point. Fort Rains was known as the "Middle Blockhouse". Fort Rains was named for Major Gabriel Rains, under whose orders the fort was built. [More] Click image to enlarge Blockhouse Mural, North Bonneville, Washington. Image taken April 7, 2014. Click image to enlarge Blockhouse Mural, North Bonneville, Washington. Image taken January 3, 2012. Sternwheeler "Regulator" ... The "Regulator" was a sternwheeler built in 1891 (rebuilt in 1899 with a larger and heavier hull) and used to navigate the Columbia River between the Cascade Rapids to The Dalles. [More] Click image to enlarge "Regulator", Mural, North Bonneville, Washington. Image taken April 7, 2014. Click image to enlarge Mural depicting the "Regulator", North Bonneville, Washington. The basalts of Cape Horn are in the background. Image taken January 3, 2012. Click image to enlarge Salmon border, mural depicting the "Regulator", North Bonneville, Washington. Image taken January 3, 2012. From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ... Clark, November 2, 1805 ... Clark, April 10, 1806 ... 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:    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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