John Hobson

Astoria, OR

This marker identifies the site of the first post office established west of the Rocky Mountains, opened on March 9, 1847, in Astoria, Oregon. Astoria was among the earliest American settlements on the Pacific coast, rooted in John Jacob Astor's fur-trading post of 1811, and the post office signaled the reach of federal institutions into the Oregon Country just as American settlement surged along the Oregon Trail.

Tillamook County, OR

Bayocean was an ambitious early-1900s beach resort promoted on the Tillamook sand spit as the 'Atlantic City of the West,' complete with a hotel, natatorium, and hundreds of lots. The Pacific had other plans: erosion steadily devoured the peninsula, and over the following decades homes, streets, and the resort itself slid into the sea, leaving one of Oregon's most famous ghost towns. This marker recalls the vanished Bayocean Beach Resort.

Washington County, OR

This memorial ties Glencoe, Oregon, to Glencoe, Scotland, honoring the Scottish immigrants who helped settle the Oregon Territory in the mid-19th century. Dedicated in February 1985 and bearing the Clan MacDonald motto 'Per Mare, Per Terras,' it remembers pioneers who carried their names, clans, and traditions west.

Washington County, OR

This marker stands on the land claim of Joseph L. Meek, the self-described "unlettered" mountain man who reached the Oregon Country in 1840 after guiding the first wagon over the stretch of the Oregon Trail from Fort Hall to Walla Walla. A trapper turned settler, Meek became a founder of Oregon's Provisional Government, the improvised American self-rule set up before the territory formally joined the United States. His life bridged the fur-trade frontier and the wave of overland emigrants who followed.