Samuel C. Lancaster
{{Short description|American landscape architect}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth year|1864}}
| birth_place = Magnolia, Mississippi
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| death_place = Portland, Oregon
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Samuel Christopher Lancaster (1864 – March 4, 1941) was an American engineer and landscape architect, known for his work on the Columbia River Highway.
Biography
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Samuel Lancaster was born in Magnolia, Mississippi in 1864, and grew up in Jackson, Tennessee.{{Cite book |url=https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/master/pnp/habshaer/or/or0300/or0317/data/or0317data.pdf |title=Columbia River Highway Bridges Spanning various creeks along the Columbia River Highway |publisher=Historic American Engineering Record |page=5 |access-date=October 4, 2024 |via=Library of Congress}}
He came to Oregon in 1908 and was hired by Sam Hill to design his experimental roads at Maryhill in 1909.{{cite book |last= Engeman |first= Richard H. |title= The Oregon Companion: An Historical Gazetteer of The Useful, The Curious, and The Arcane |url= https://archive.org/details/oregoncompanionh0000enge |url-access= registration |year= 2009 |publisher= Timber Press |location= Portland, Oregon |isbn= 978-0-88192-899-0 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/oregoncompanionh0000enge/page/212 212]–213}} He did a plan for the campus of Linfield College before beginning supervision of the Columbia River Highway in 1913. He also promoted Crown Point as the site of an observatory.
Lancaster was instrumental in the building of the 7-mile Larch Mountain Trail, which begins at the Multnomah Falls Lodge and climbs to the summit of Larch Mountain. The trail was completed in September 1915. In October 1915, he founded the Trails Club of Oregon and became its first president.{{Cite news |url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1915-10-10/ed-1/seq-59/ |date=1915-10-10|title=Club Launched at Dedication of Larch Trail to Boost Scenic Points |newspaper=The Sunday Oregonian |location=Portland, OR |at=Sec 5 Pg 1}}
He died from leukemia at his home in Portland on March 4, 1941.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55940758/columbia-road-father-is-dead-at-portland/ |title=Columbia Road Father Is Dead at Portland |newspaper=The World |location=Portland |agency=UP |page=1 |date=1941-03-04 |access-date=2020-07-23 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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Category:American landscape architects
Category:Historic Columbia River Highway
Category:People from Magnolia, Mississippi
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