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Swimming Hole

11-6-2019
Swimming Hole

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This is an unusual view of the Columbia River near the Dalles, taken by Benjamin Gifford.

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Tags: Columbia River, Gifford, Mt Hood, photogravure, swimming, the Dalles

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  1. Gladys

    6th November 2019 @ 08:06 AM

    I think that is the massive fish wheel that they called “Big Eddy” just up the river from The Dalles. Seeing where Mt. Hood is in the photo, it basically shows that below that fish wheel is where the Columbia started its curve. That is the one, wheel, that if people had thought about conservation, that should have been left there and maintained to give future generations at least a little look at what the “big boys” did to the river.

    As to the swimming hole I think it is just a slough area, that Gifford just thought looked like a swimming place. There is the possibility that it is a place that people went to swim. Looks quite calm there compared to what the main river looked like in those days……….No real way to determine where it was, as that is all under water now.

  2. Kenn

    6th November 2019 @ 08:28 AM

    May be the cannery fish wheel at the mouth of 15 mile creek.

  3. Melody Shellman

    6th November 2019 @ 09:12 AM

    Is that a diving board, then?

  4. ArthurB

    6th November 2019 @ 09:39 AM

    Good question Melody. There seem to be a pile of sandbags, and a wooden spar supported by a block. It doesn't look wide enough to walk on– looks more like a sailboat mast.

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