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These images were taken with my Nikon D810 and nifty fifty lens
This looks like it was a railroad depot at one time.
A County map will really help in finding these places.
Huntington is a city in Baker County, on the eastern border of Oregon, United
States. It is located on the Snake River and along Interstate 84 and U.S. Route 30.
The population was 440 at the 2010 census, down from 515 in 2000.
Henry Miller settled in the area in August 1862. In 1870, Miller's Stagecoach
Station was established before the coming of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company rail line in 1884, and was platted in 1885 or 1886. It soon became the
primary shipping point for the cattle country to the south. Miller built the Stage
Tavern, known for many years as "Miller Station". It was on the overland route that
had been established in the valley, and had become well known to all who traveled
in pioneer days. According to Oregon Geographic Names, Huntington was named for J.B.
and J.M. Huntington, brothers who purchased Miller's holdings in 1882.
The Huntingtons maintained a small trading post on their land. In 1884, the rails
of the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company line were
joined in Huntington. Since that time, Huntington has been an important railway
division point. With the advent of the railroad came J.T. Fifer, who had been
selling general merchandise to the construction crews moving his goods from town
to town as the work progressed. Shortly after Fifer arrived, the Huntingtons closed
up, leaving him alone in the general merchandise business. The Oregon Construction
Company followed soon, with a stock of general merchandise, a blacksmith shop, the
Pacific Hotel, several boarding houses and restaurants and a number of saloons.
In 1898, the Northwest Railroad Company began extending a short line down the Snake
River. It reached Homestead about 1910. This increased transportation at Huntington
and gave an outlet for Eagle and Pine Valley fruits, cattle, lumber and ore. This
line was flooded by water from Brownlee Dam. Huntington became the only
incorporated city in Baker County on the Oregon Trail in 1891 with Home Rule Law.
Remnants of the Old Oregon Trail can still be seen today when one is traveling
north from Farewell Bend State Recreation Area toward the town of Huntington on
U.S. Route 30.
Evidence of the hardships and tragedies of the pioneer movement still exists: a
small iron cross, visible from Route 30, marks the location where Snake River
Shoshone Indians killed a number of emigrants in 1860.
At the turn of the century, Huntington developed a reputation as "Sin City", a
rugged frontier town having its share of saloons, Chinese opium dens, and gunslingers.
Governor Oswald West was motivated to clean up the city, along with the community
of Copperfield, in 1912-14.
The first ransom bill from the 1935 George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping turned up in
Huntington.
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