They laughed at Captain Scott's ugly boat ... at first
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This article about Captain Uriah B. Scott was published in the Nov. 11, 1906, edition of the Portland Sunday Oregonian. The portrait shows him as he appeared circa 1885. (Image: UO Libraries)
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Capt. Uriah B. Scott’s second steamboat, the City of Salem, takes on passengers at a dock somewhere near Salem, probably sometime in the 1880s. The image is marked as copyright 1920, but that is probably the date this print was made; the City of Salem was no longer in service at that time. Capt. Scott liked to boast that the City of Salem could run on “a heavy dew.” (Photo: Salem Public Library)
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Background image is a postcard, a hand-tinted photograph of Crown Point and the Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway. Here is a link to the Offbeat Oregon article about it, from 2024.
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