Cascade Locks
Historical Museum

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OPEN
May through September
12:00-5:00pm

Admission is FREE and donations are accepted.
Appointments for school class tours and other group arrangements available.

The Museum is located in one of the three original locks tender's houses, built in 1905, in the Cascade Locks Marine Park.

The Historical Museum

The Historical Museum also features information, photographs, and artifacts on the history of the Columbia River Gorge, topics including:

LOGGING, THE OLD LOCKS, NATIVE AMERICAN, THE CASADE RAPIDS, RAILROADS, TOOL, SAWMILLS, FISHWEEELS, STERWHEELERS, THE PORTAGE ROAD, STEAMBOATS, SCHOOLS and Much More!

The Oregon Pony

tThe Oregon Pony steam locomotive was the first of its kind to be built on the Pacific Coast and the first to be used in the Oregon Territory . Until the Oregon Pony went to work in 1862, the conveyances were flat cars running on rails, equipped with benches for passengers and pulled by mules.

Shortly after the Pony was put into service, canopies were added to protect the passengers and their goods from the hot, sooty water that rained down on everything as the little locomotive steamed along.

The little Oregon Pony engine moved nearly 200 tons a day between the Cascades and Bonneville, until it was transferred to the The Dalles , where it was put to work on the portage around Celilo Falls . The Oregon Pony is now owned by the State of Oregon and is kept in a climate controlled exhibition chamber next to the Cascade Locks Historical Museum.

Directions

From I-84(East or West), take exit 44 into Cascade Locks. The entrance to the Marine Park is on the river side of the main street that goes throughtown.

Address: 1 Portage Rd, Cascade Locks, OR 97014