George Pinner built most of the stone fireplace through the Mount Hood corridor during the 1920’s and 1930’s, many for Henry Steiner’s cabins.
George Pinner – Master Stonemason
Category: Mount Hood
Adolph Aschoff’s Letters Home
I acquired six real photo postcards in all. Every one written in old German language in Adolph Aschoff’s meticulous longhand penmanship. The writing is so small one almost needs a magnifying glass to read it.
Snow Saga of Lige Coalman
On one particular December night in 1914, four men, one woman and two children, the entire winter population of Government Camp, were all sleeping peacefully in the hostelry building when Lige Coalman was awakened by a noise that sounded like something scratching and clawing at the door and moaning or shouting feebly. There was nine feet of snow on the ground and the temperature was near zero.
Government Camp Oregon
Perched at 4,000 feet in elevation on the south face of Mount Hood, Government Camp, Oregon, has long been known as a ski town. Long before ski resorts arrived, adventurers made their way to Mount Hood in the winter for snowshoeing and skiing and in the summer for hiking and exploring.
Samuel Welch 1880 Welches Pioneer
Samuel Welch left Virginia and traveled to Oregon via the old Oregon Trail in 1842. In 1882 he and his son Billy each homesteaded 160 acres apiece