Riverside, Oregon

Riverside started out as a trading center for cattlemen and was a typical small frontier town . The post office was established November 21, 1889. As the sheep men encroached on the cattle barons Riverside became a wool and shearing center. With the building of the railroad it became a railroad construction camp and finally the scene of the building of the Warm Springs Dam.

Originating in Ontario, Oregon, the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company reached Milepost 96, just west of Riverside, Oregon in 1914. By 1915-1916 the O.W.R.R. & N. reached Crane, Oregon and finally was completed to Burns, Oregon in 1924.

The same picture but only ten years later after the rails had been pulled up for scrap iron. What a tragedy.

And how many O.W.R.R. & N. steam engines do you think stopped here to fill up with water?

References:

• Oregon Geographic Names by Lewis A. McArther, 1965
• Oregon - The American Guide Series, 1940