Warrendale, Oregon

Warrendale was named for Frank M. Warren Sr., a prominent Portland citizen and a pioneer of the salmon canning industry in Oregon.{{Cite Oregon Geographic Names|7th|page=1012}} Warren died in the sinking of the {{RMS|Titanic||2}} in April 1912.

Warrendale post office ran from 1894 to 1942; today the community is within the Cascade Locks ZIP code. Warrendale station on the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company line (today owned by Union Pacific) was established in 1916.{{cite web |url= http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cgs_specpubs/QB275U35no1221926.pdf |title= First-Level Ordering in Oregon |author= Avers, Henry G. |publisher= United States Department of Commerce: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |year= 1926 |page= 64 |format=PDF |access-date= August 16, 2011}}

In 1915, the community had two salmon canneries, a large pulp and paper mill, and a public school, none of which remained by 1990. Warrendale students later attended Bonneville Grade School in Dodson, which closed in 1996.{{cite news |url= http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2010/01/bygone_bonneville.html |title= Bygone Bonneville |work= The Oregonian |date= January 16, 2010 |last= Hays |first= Jim |access-date= August 14, 2011}}{{cite web |url= http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002CD/finalprogram/abstract_34991.htm |title= Post-1996 Debris Flow Erosion and Sedimentation, Tumalt Creek Drainage, Multnomah County, Oregon |publisher= Geological Society of America |access-date= August 14, 2011}} A salmon cannery established here in 1870 was the most prominent along the mid-Columbia River at that time. Frank Warren's cannery used a fish wheel upstream at Hamilton Island on the Washington side of the river to harvest salmon, which were transported down the island using a tramway, the remnants of which are still located in Fort Cascades Historic Site.{{cite web |url=http://www.columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/warrendale.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729174109/http://www.columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/warrendale.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 29, 2010 |title= Warrendale, Oregon |publisher= The Columbia River - A Photographic Journey |access-date= August 16, 2011}} The fish were then transported across the river to Warrendale for processing. The tramway operated until 1930, and fish wheels were outlawed in Washington in 1934. Warren also owned a cannery in Cathlamet, Washington.

In the 1930s, Warrendale was considered as a site for the Bonneville Dam, eventually built a few miles upstream at Bonneville.{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/bonneville_dam/|title=Bonneville Dam|author=Willingham, William F.|work=The Oregon Encyclopedia|publisher=Portland State University|access-date=December 29, 2013}}

In February 1996, a series of massive debris flows, resulting from the same severe weather that caused flooding in the Willamette Valley, occurred between Dodson and Warrendale, destroying homes and blocking the railroad and I-84 for several days.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=JZsmVwwpHh4C&pg=PA201 |title= Geology and the Environment |chapter= Dynamic Real Estate in Oregon |year= 2008 |last= Pipkin |first= Bernard W. |author2=D. D. Trent |author3=Richard Hazlett |author4=Paul Bierman |edition= 5th |publisher= Thomson Brooks/Cole |location= Belmont, California |page= 201 |isbn= 0-495-11305-0}}{{cite web |url= http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-176-97/fs-176-97.html |title= U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 176-97: Debris-Flow Hazards in the United States |last= Highland |first= Lynn M. |author2=Stephenson D. Ellen |author3=Sarah B. Christian |author4=William M. Brown III |publisher= United States Geological Survey |access-date= August 14, 2011}}

Warrendale was the home of Frederick H. Kiser, an early Oregon photographer, who, with his brother Oscar H. Kiser, established Kiser Scenic Photo Studio there in 1903.{{cite web |url= http://wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu/osu_archives/2009/08/26/ |title= Archive for August 26th, 2009 |publisher= Oregon State University Archives |access-date= August 16, 2011}} The company moved to Portland in 1905; Oscar died in November of that year.{{cite web |url= http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv22241 |title= Guide to the Kiser Photo Co. Photographs:1901–1999 |publisher= Northwest Digital Archives |access-date= August 16, 2011}} The Kiser brothers' parents owned the Columbia Beach Hotel and Nursery in Warrendale. Fred H. Kiser was the official photographer for the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, and was noted for his images of Crater Lake and his promotional work for the Great Northern Railway.{{cite web |url= http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/photo/abstracts.html |title= Abstracts of Photograph Collections |publisher= University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections |access-date= August 16, 2011}}

• Steamboats of the Columbia River

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• {{cite book |title= Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese |year= 1993|editor= Wegars, Priscilla |location= Amityville, NY |publisher= Baywood Publishing Company, Inc|last= Fagan |first= John L. |chapter= The Chinese Cannery Workers of Warrendale, Oregon, 1876–1930 |isbn= 0-89503-091-8}}

• [http://www.gorgediscovery.org/photoarchive/newDetails.asp?local=Warrendale&Submit3=Search&ID=1436 Historic image of Warren Cannery at Warrendale] from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
• [http://www.gorgediscovery.org/photoarchive/newDetails.asp?local=Warrendale&Submit3=Search&ID=2386 Historic image of Warrendale] from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
• [https://www.flickr.com/places/United+States/Oregon/Warrendale Images of Warrendale] from Flickr

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