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Woodard Creek, Washington.
View looking downstream. Pierce Island is in the background.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Woodard Creek ...
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Woodard Creek (often seen as "Woodward Creek") is located on the Washington State side of the Columbia at River Mile (RM) 142. The mouth of Woodard Creek enters the Columbia River behind Pierce Island and downstream of Beacon Rock. Woodard Creek lies upstream of Duncan Creek, Skamania Landing, and the small community of Prindle. Across the Columbia is the community of Warrendale, Oregon.
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Lewis and Clark and Woodard and Duncan Creeks ...
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Lewis and Clark spotted Woodard and Duncan Creeks on November 2, 1806.
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"... passed three Islands covered with tall timber opposit the Beatin rock Those Islands are nearest the Starboard Side, iimediately below on the Stard. Side passed a village of nine houses, which is Situated between 2 Small Creeks ..."
[Clark, November 2, 1806]
On April 9, 1806, on their return upriver, Lewis and Clark stopped at the village between the two creeks. Today's Skamania and Skamania Landing are located near the location of that village.
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Early Woodard Creek ...
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"Woodard" ... "Woodward" ... "Wooded/Woodrd" ...
The 1860 federal census for Skamania County, Washington Territory, has an entry for John D. Wooded (Woodrd ?), age 32, farmer, and his wife Sarah C., age 20, and two children, Richard, age 2, and Wm. C., age 5 months. A digital image of the original census report is online at the Washington State Digital Archives (2013). See detail image below.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office (GLO) Records database shows a John D. Woodward being issued a land title on November 22, 1865, for 186.02 acres of parts of T2N R6E Sections 35 and 36, under the 1850 "Oregon-Donation Act".
The 1911 U.S. Geological Survey's 1:125,000 topo map for "Mount Hood and Vicinity" has "Woodward Creek" and "Duncan Creek" named.
In 2007 the U.S. Geological Survey's Board of Geographic Names made "Woodard Creek" the official name.
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Detail, 1860 Skamania County Census entry for John D. Woodard.
Original census courtesy Washington State online Digital Archives website, 2013.
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Views ...
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Woodard Creek, Washington.
View at mouth, looking downstream, with Pierce Island.
Image taken July 2, 2006.
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Woodard Creek, Washington.
View at mouth, looking upstream.
Image taken July 2, 2006.
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"Nootka Rose" ...
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Wild "Nootka Roses" are found throughout the Columbia River Valley.
While Captain Lewis and Captain Clark wrote about the wild rose throughout their journey,
Captain Lewis wrote about the wild roses in his journal while at a camp in Idaho in 1806.
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there are two speceis of the wild rose both quinqui petallous and of a damask red but the one is as large as the common red rose of our gardens. I observed the apples of this speceis last fall to be more than triple the size of those of the ordinary wild rose; the stem of this rose is the same with the other tho' the leaf is somewhat larger. ..."
[Lewis, June 10, 1806]
Historians have identified these two roses as the "Nootka Rose" (Rosa nutkana) and "Wood's Rose" (Rosa woodsii, or the Western Wild Rose). Both were undescribed species at the time of the Lewis and Clark journey (Moulton, vol.8). The "Wild Rose" is a plentiful throughout the woodlands of Washington and Oregon. Beautiful shrubs of the rose can be found along Woodard Creek and scattered around the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
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Wild Rose, Columbia River Gorge.
The Nootka Rose. Photographed near Woodard Creek, Washington.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Wild Rose, Columbia River Gorge.
The Nootka Rose. Photographed near Woodard Creek, Washington.
Image taken May 13, 2005.
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Wild Rose.
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Washington, River "S" Unit.
Image taken, May 19, 2007.
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From the Journals of Lewis and Clark ...
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Clark, November 2, 1805 ...
Clark, April 9, 1806 ...
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