Welcome to the web home of the Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation
Willamette Falls is a large, horseshoe-shaped basalt cascade that divides the upper and lower reaches of the Willamette River. which is an American Heritage River. The falls lie 14 miles upriver from Portland and were the heart of pioneering industry in the Oregon Territory.
Meet the Hawley Powerhouse artists at our reception, January 4, 2009 at the West Linn Library Gallery
Hawley Powerhouse, November 15, 2008
Hawley Powerhouse, a 1916 structure that is part of the head dam around Willamette Falls (under license to Portland General Electric), has been decommissioned and disassembled under an order of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, starting in July 2008.
PGE generously allowed Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation to stage a commemorative heritage/art event at the powerhouse on June26-27. The foundation and its PGE hosts supervised 17 fine artists, capturing hundreds of images of the site over the course of two days. Those talented painters, photographers, film and print makers have created inspired images for a historic collection that will open January 4, 2009 at the West Linn Library Gallery and run through January. (Click on the Hawley Art Jam link, left, for images of the June event.)
Support WFHF with your purchase of these wonderful items...
The holiday season is a great time to share some wonderful and unique heritage items offered by the Willamette Falls Heritage Foundation.
Our original history DVDs profile seventeen workers from the Crown Zellerbach paper mill. Hear their stories in both "Grindstones, Boomsticks, Tattletales and Nips, the stories and the people of Crown Zellerbach International, West Linn Division--1928-1986" and in our second movie, "Friends, Fish and $1.09 an Hour."
Posters featuring the art of Daniel Robinson celebrate each year's Lock Fest.
