Historic Hood River
Caughey Homestead
9-5-2014
Notes
This may not be Hood River, but what a great view of the Caughey homestead in Prineville. You don’t need color photography to know this is the dry side of the mountains.
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charlott
This must have been a prosperous ranch, due to the size and quality of the big house. I am wondering if the building and the barn like structure, directly behind the big house might not have been the original house and barn. I think this must have been a ranch for quite a period of time, due to the number of out buildings. I would guess that on this side of the house is the "kitchen garden".
Is this a stream in the foreground? I don’t see where it goes, it if is, when it gets to the tree, unless there is a well or some sort of holding area that it goes into.
Wonder what butte that is in the back ground?
Great overall photo of that type of ranching, but give me my trees.
l.e.
Growing up on the "west side", I distinctly remember by first visit to an "eastside" ranch. It was in the Prineville/Madras area. I was 14 and we spent several days there visiting friends. Waking up in the morning, the smells and sounds were totally different from what I was used to. The air was crisp and it smelled of Juniper. I could hear quail outside my bedroom window.
Trees are wonderful but they do tend to block the view. No problem of that in this photo.
I’m surprised there aren’t some big shade trees planted near the house. Definitely a creek running through and it looks like hay ground out behind the house.
Stage stop? Sheep Ranch? Cattle Ranch?
nels
Several of the buildings look to be built for human habitation. Maybe for the wranglers for cattle and/or sheep? And were the people ‘staged’ for the sake of the photographer?
Buzz
No place like home. Tried living in the desert once. But anywhere the biggest crop is rotten rocks was not for me. Back to the coast.
Jill
That is Grizzly Mountain in the background. And it still looks like that today – the entire Prineville area. Tom McCalls mother loved it and they hosted many week-long parties at their "ranch under the rimrock". Pheasant and snake shooting were featured, along with deer and elk.