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    The Astoria Wharf and Warehouse Company building is a historic warehouse located in Astoria, Oregon, United States. The building was listed on the National...
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  • the goal of buying a steamboat and running passengers and freight across the Columbia from Astoria to the Ilwaco wharf that they had built. They sold...
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    Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Historic Sites Database, retrieved September 26, 2013. "Fire destroys cannery on Astoria waterfront". Corvallis...
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  • Marshall J. Kinney Cannery (category Buildings and structures in Astoria, Oregon)
    canneries. Run by the Astoria Packing Company, of which Marshall J. Kinney was president, the complex quickly became the "largest and most extensive salmon-packing...
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  • it was redeveloped as a cinema, later the Astoria theatre and music venue (in 2010, following the Astoria's demolition to make way for the London Crossrail...
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    borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens...
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    early 1900s, and was based in Astoria, Oregon. Callender was to become one of six large towing companies of the Columbia and Willamette rivers in the early...
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    Colombia on the Eastern side of the isthmus, and then a second route from Panama City, Colombia to Astoria, Oregon. That same year, William Henry Aspinwall...
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    Foin/Hooikaai ("Hay Wharf"), etc., or references to the neighbourhood's commercial activities: the Rue du Magasin/Pakhuisstraat ("Warehouse Street"), the Rue...
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    Gazelle (1854 sidewheeler) (category Oregon Steam Navigation Company)
    further on to the Willamette Company's wharf-boat, where he stopped the steamer, and then himself disembarked on to the wharf-boat. According to one source...
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    Bailey Gatzert (sternwheeler) (category Puget Sound Navigation Company)
    sound, all failed. In May, 1895, Bailey Gatzert departed from Flavel's Wharf in Astoria, opposite to the Occident Hotel, daily at 7:00 p.m. for Portland, Sundays...
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    Olympia, and Astoria National Defense Reserve Fleet's. In 1955, 22 ships in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet were withdrawn to be loaded with grain and were then...
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    Portland, San Francisco, and Hawaii. Making money in his stores and warehouses, in trades of lumber, grain, and salted fish, and in real-estate deals, Pettygrove...
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  • had built a pier or "wharf" station at this location. In 1915, the Havemeyer's would consolidate both East River Terminal RR and Brooklyn Eastern District...
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    America (steamboat 1899) (category People's Transportation Company)
    Bros. wharf in St. Helens. The fire was thought to have started from a gas explosion in the firebox. The fire spread from the boat to the wharf, and then...
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    during the shootout on Juneau Wharf on July 8, 1898. Other towns also boomed. Wrangell, port of the Stikine route and boom town from earlier gold rushes...
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    McCarty, and D.H Budlong Upon formation, the company intended to build a steamer as soon as possible, and build improved wharf facilities and interchange...
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    was "wharfed out" by the sale of "water lots" was largely garbage such as bones, offal, and even whole dead animals, along with excrement – human and animal...
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    Orient (sternwheeler) (category Oregon Steam Navigation Company)
    Falls Locks, then recently completed, the farmer's warehouse at Astoria, Oregon, part of the Astoria waterfront, a number of barges, as well as the steamboats...
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    small boats of the Joseph Kellogg while the steamer was lying at a wharf in Astoria. In July 1890, a boat with the name "Kellogg" on the bow was found...
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    Northwest (sternwheeler) (category Kellogg Transportation Company)
    The steamer arrived at Astoria, Oregon on the afternoon on April 9, 1907, with Capt. G.W. Adams in command, from Portland and Vancouver en route to Vancouver...
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    "easy" transport of passengers and freight to Sacramento, banks, bar rooms, gambling establishments, wharfs, warehouses and other needed buildings were built...
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    Woodland, McNeill tied Mascot up at the Lewis River Transportation Company's warehouse at Pekin. The fire began at 4:00 a.m. the next morning. The Morning...
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    flumes, cuts and dredging, and also to run steamboats and build warehouses and wharfs. In October 1876 the Yamhill Locks and Manufacturing Company was incorporated...
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