Fort Clatsop announces free event: The Oregon Historical Railroads Project

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop has announced the next In Their Footsteps free speaker series event. This program is The Oregon Historical Railroads Project by Edward Kamholz on Sunday, October 18, at 1:00 p.m.

Edward Kamholz's presentation will focus on railroad logging in Oregon with special emphasis on northwest Oregon. The Oregon Historical Railroads Project is an historical survey of Oregon's private, public and urban/interurban railroads examining their development patterns with an ongoing effort to make this information available to the public in the form of an on-line map. This resource will track the arrival, establishment, and spread of Anglo culture in the state from the 1870s through the mid-twentieth century. More information is available at http://www.ohrp.org.

Edward J. Kamholz, M.B.A., is a forest historian and co-author of The Oregonian-American Lumber Company: Ain't No More (2003, Stanford University Press).

This monthly Sunday forum is sponsored by the Lewis & Clark National Park Association and the park. These programs are held in the Netul River Room of Fort Clatsop's visitor center and are free of charge.

For more information, call the park at (503) 861-2471.