Everything about Boones Ferry totally explained
Boones Ferry (also
Boone's Ferry) was a
cable ferry which crossed the
Willamette River near present day
Wilsonville, Oregon from 1847 to 1954. It was part of a major land-based thoroughfare in pioneer times linking fledging
Portland with the pre-territorial government at
Champoeg, and later
Salem. It was eventually obsoleted by the
Boone Bridge on
Interstate 5.
History
The ferry was built by the family of Alphonso Boone (grandson of
Daniel Boone) who, in 1846,
claimed
on and around present day
Charbonneau which was on the main road between
Oregon City and present day
Butteville.
The family cleared a path and laid a split log roadway north to
Portland and south toward
Salem. The ferry was propelled by oarsmen from the nearby
Tuality Indian tribe. Alphonso was adamant about operating the ferry 24 hours a day, which might have been related to a widespread illicit
moonshine industry along the new road.
in the gold fields of a miner's disease, but his sons returned with their fortunes. Initially Alphonso, Jr. operated the ferry, but soon sold it to his brother Jesse, who operated it until his death in 1872 at the hand of a neighbor over a river access dispute.
Today, at the end of one of the road fragments on the north shore is
Boones Ferry Park in Wilsonville located where one terminal was; the south shore has a marina with a boat ramp in approximately the historical location of the other terminal. The ferry crossing site is about 2000 ft (600 m) west of I-5 and is visible from the southbound lanes of the Boone Bridge.
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