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Gulick homestead buildings, stable (left) and house (center), The Dalles, Oregon.
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Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead ...
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The remains of an Indian Shaker Church and still-standing buildings of the Henry Gulick homestead can be seen at the Lone Pine area of The Dalles, Oregon at the southeastern end of The Dalles Bridge. The buildings are weathered and in bad condition, with some missing roof parts, while others, including the Shaker Church, have collapsed. The site is an area approximately 200 feet by 500 feet and can be reached from the nearby motel. It can also be seen from the southern end of the bridge crossing the Columbia River, and from the road to The Dalles Visitor Center. Henry Gulick's homestead buildings consist of a stable, drying shed, chicken coop, privy (collapsed), barn (collapsed), and a two-room house. Locations of two other dwellings have been identified (from early photographs). The church building was 14 by 23 feet in size, and until 1973 it had supported a 3-foot cross above the apse. In 1971 the church was moved approximately 100 feet closer to the homestead buildings to make room for the nearby motel. Unfortunately the church collapsed under snow in November 1996. The Dalles Indian Shaker Church was one of five in Oregon. Of the five, the church at The Dalles was the smallest, both as a building and as a congregation.
In 1978 the Indian Shaker Church and the Gulick Homestead were added to the National Register of Historic Places (Event #78003087).
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Old Shaker Church ...
Lone Pine part of history ...
Old Shaker Church still standing
"Some still remember, some have heard stories of the time when fish were plentiful and the water flowed freely through the Columbia River Gorge. Those times are no more.
In 1934 after completion of The Dalles Dam the cliffs once used for fishing were inundated. The flooding waters changed the appearance of the cascading river and also affected the fish run.
Development along the river increased and in 1973 the Portage Inn became a part of the river landscape. It was built where the Shaker Church once stood in an area known as "Lone Pine."
The Shaker Church remains, located a little closer to the river and worn by years of winds and rain, but worn mostly by time.
Its history is simple. The church was built by a man from Muckleshoot, Washington in 1927. It was the first Shaker Church on this side of the river, relates Warm Springs tribal member Delbert Frank. The Shaker Church itself was started officially in 1910 in Oyster Bay, Washington and spread over the mountains in 1923.
The man from Muckleshoot was a Shaker. He married a woman from The North Dalles, says Frank. He started fishing across the river in Washington with a fish wheel, "when the wheels were allowed," explains Frank. But when they were banned he moved to the Oregon side.
The man brought the Shaker Church to Lone Pine with him. It was built "where the Portage Inn is now," says Frank. When the crude structures were moved they were placed approximately 25 yards closer to the water. The direction of the buildings were also changed. The altar in the Shaker Church, Frank relates, "should be facing east.""
Source:
"Spilyay Tymoo", Warm Springs, Oregon, October 7, 1988, courtesy Historic Oregon Newspapers Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, 2018.
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Old Shaker Church (collapsed) ...
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Collapsed Indian Shaker Church (foreground) with barn (middle), Gulick Homestead, The Dalles, Oregon.
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The Indian Shaker Church collapsed from the weight of snow, November 1996.
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Gulick Homestead ...
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Henry Gulick was a Scottish immigrant who settled in the area in the 1890s. He married Harriet, a local Wasco woman who was a member of the Indian Shaker movement - a mix of traditional and indigenous spiritual practices. About 1896, Henry Gulick helped build the The Dalles community a Shaker Church not far from his homestead.
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Henry Gulick ...
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"Evidence suggests that one man, Henry Gulick, built most, if not all, of the buildings in this community. The sills, joinsts, walls, and roofs suggest that one man was involved in the construciton throughout. The structures that show evidence of different construction techniques are the addition to the barn and the two-room house, and the Shaker Church. In the church, the evidence suggests that Gulick hleped construct the building, but the footings, sills and roof details are dissimilar to any other structures within the community. ...
Henry Gulick, of Scottish extraction, came to The Dalles in the early 1890s. When he came to The Dalles, he brought his wife, Harriet, a Wasco Indian woman, and his son, Jackson. Gulick settled with his family on a small homestead about one and one half miles upriver from the town of The Dalles. He built the buildings now standing in the area and two houses and two fishwheels that are no longer standing. Gulick made his living as a fisherman and as a carpenter for the Seufert brothers fish company. Henry Gulick died in 1915 and his widow moved to the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon where she remarried."
Source:
Indian Shaker Church and Henry Gulick Homestead, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 1970.
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Gulick Homestead with The Dalles Bridge in the background, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Gulick Homestead Buildings ...
"The stable consists of a stall area, a tack room, a wagon room, and three storage rooms. The drying shed is one room and is the closest structure to the Columbia River. The chicken coop is similar in size, proportions, and construction to the drying shed. The privy exhibits a unique constructino technique. It is built on a basalt ledge with short stilts supporting the back, so that there is no need for the customary privy pit. There is a double floor with basalt fill between the two floor levels - to prevent the building from being upset. The barn is a composite structure with at least one addition. It is deteriorated to the degree that it is difficult to analyse how each area functioned. The two-room house was probably used as a one room shed originally with the second room added later. This structure is unique with the absence of any sill on the south side of the west room. Evidence is present where two houses originally stood. These houses were the homes of Henry Gulick, the builder of the community, and his son. The structure was burned during the early 1960s."
Source:
Indian Shaker Church and Henry Gulick Homestead, National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form, 1970.
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Gulick Homestead, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Gulick Homestead, The Dalles, Oregon.
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Gulick Homestead with The Dalles Dam in the background.
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Gulick Homestead with The Dalles Dam in the background.
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Gulick Homestead with The Dalles Dam in the background.
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Gulick Homestead with The Dalles Dam in the background.
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Drying shed with collapsed Chicken Coop in the background, Gulick Homestead, The Dalles Dam in the background.
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Gulick Homestead with Dalles Bridge in the background.
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View from above on the hillside ...
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The Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead.
View from above The Dalles.
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View from The Dalles Bridge ...
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The Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead, from Highway 197 bridge.
View from moving car while on ramp to northbound Highway 197 bridge.
Image taken June 4, 2011.
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The Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead, from Highway 197 bridge.
View from moving car while on ramp to northbound Highway 197 bridge.
Pile of lumber on the right is the collapsed Shaker Church.
Image taken October 6, 2011.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, October 25, 1805 ...
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