The final dam was upstream from this one, the construction track for it came down and south from the tail of the switchback and can still be walked.

Kenn on 15th December 2017 @ 9:02am

I stumbled apone a cemetery old from the 1800s kids died from small pox and Yankees burried there. I can lead anyone there but it is not listed on any historic data. It's in hoodriver. Close to country club road. Call me @ 1509-901-7645.

Chris on 15th December 2017 @ 11:28pm

If the cemetery is down by the freeway on a knoll it is the Irving or Frankton cemetery. See Findagrave.com Irving Cemetery listings. Quite a few of the bodies have been removed from the cemetery, so there are only a few headstones.

Jeffrey Bryant on 16th December 2017 @ 5:31am

I knew the roadway in the area of the dam looked railroad'ish, especially the bridge over Neal Creek (which I think is much newer, but still has a railroad appearance to it), guess it was.

Longshot on 17th December 2017 @ 3:55pm

Does any body know anything about the Fewel family, who lived at Powerdale? Their daughter Irene and her husband Jake Samuel , Gary Samuel's uncle, were my parents' neighbors. She told me that she had to wait out of school for a year or two, until her little brother turned six, so she didn'nt have to walk all the way to school alone. How do you suppose those little kids got across the river and up the bluff to school? She was right there for many years, our back doors only steps apart, and I never asked her! In the Glacier I read about amreception the
Fewels held when their new "chimneyless" house was built. Chimneyless, because it was totally electric! How odd that their name was Fewel, and yet theyndidn't use any! Mrs. Fewel was said to be the prettiest woman in Hood River, by the way. Surely the grandfather of one of you signed her dance card or walked her home from achool.

Barbara Parsons on 14th December 2020 @ 6:58pm