The Cascades Rapids (sometimes called Cascade Falls or Cascades of the Columbia) were an area of rapids along North America's Columbia River, between...
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rapid to be created. Rapids are hydrological features between a run (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a cascade. Rapids are characterized by the...
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mountains, such as many of those in the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades. The small part of the range in British Columbia...
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Look up cascades in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cascades or The Cascades may refer to: Cascade Range or Cascades, a mountain range in the Pacific...
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Celilo Falls (redirect from Five Mile Rapids)
of the Cascade Mountains, on what is today the border between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. The name refers to a series of cascades and waterfalls...
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The Big Cascade Rapids is a navigational hazards on the Athabasca River, near Athabasca Landing, Alberta. The river flows over a series of ridges, with...
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its name from a set of locks built to improve navigation past the Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The U.S. federal government approved the plan...
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depth was not attained until 1976. Cascade Locks and Canal were first constructed in 1896 around the Cascades Rapids, enabling boats to travel safely through...
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that include the land west of the crest of the Cascade Range (named after the long-gone Cascades Rapids), while some advocates propose borders as far north...
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Cascade (also seen as Cascades) was a stern-wheel-driven steamboat built in Oregon which operated on the lower Columbia and the lower Willamette rivers...
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broke through the dam and washed away most of the debris, forming the Cascades Rapids, themselves submerged in 1938 by the construction of the Bonneville...
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Kettle Falls (category Cascade waterfalls)
Washington, near the Canada–US border. The falls consisted of a series of rapids and cascades where the river passed through quartzite rocks deposited by prehistoric...
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traveling through the gorge Cascades Rapids Proposed Columbia Gorge casino, a proposed off-reservation casino in Cascade Locks Wahclella Falls Nancy Neighbor...
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The Cascades Railroad ran for about 6 miles (9.7 km) on the north bank of the Columbia River around the Cascades Rapids. The owner was the Oregon Steam...
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Fort Cascades was a United States Army fort constructed in 1855 to protect the portage road around the final section of the Cascades Rapids, known as the...
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Grand Rapids metropolitan area is a triangular shaped Metro Triplex, in West Michigan, which fans out westward from the primary hub city of Grand Rapids, Michigan...
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unity that gives Cascadia its definition. The term "Cascades" was first used for the Cascades Rapids, as early as the Astor Expedition. The earliest attested...
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John McNulty (steamboat captain) (section Record Run of the R.R. Thompson through the Cascade Rapids)
There, then, the Columbia River's two most significant and dangerous rapids, the Cascades and The Dalles, followed one upon the other. Capt. McNulty was the...
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robe or cape and leggings would be added in cooler weather. Below the Cascades Rapids women wore grass skirts. Women on the southern plateau wore basketry...
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1896. It allowed the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids, and thereby opened a passage from the lower parts of the river as...
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several areas, such as Fort Cascades and Fort Raines, both built in the 1850s to protect the portage road around the Cascades Rapids. Kiteboarding and windsurfing...
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locks) at the Cascades Rapids. The "middle river," meaning the route from the top of the Cascades to The Dalles, where another set of rapids began, called...
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Mount Hood (category Cascade Volcanoes)
to have destroyed the Bridge of the Gods and thus created the great Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River. The mountain sits partly inside the reservation...
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Granite Rapids is the codename for 6th generation Xeon Scalable server processors designed by Intel, launched on 24 September 2024. Featuring up to 128...
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The township is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is located just east of the city of Grand Rapids. The township is the location of Gerald...
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Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, making it...
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Indian wars that occurred "year after year", citing battles fought near Cascades Rapids, in The Dalles, and on Memaloose Isle. The final three verses describe...
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North Carolina Cascade Falls (Lincoln County, Oregon), a waterfall Cascade Falls (Linn County, Oregon), a waterfall Cascades Rapids, or Cascade Falls, a defunct...
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Yakima War (redirect from Cascades Massacre)
The Cascades Massacre on March 26, 1856 was the name given to an attack by a coalition of tribes against white soldiers and settlers in the Cascades Rapids...
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St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) (redirect from Rapids of St. Mary)
maintained a portage around the rapids of the St. Marys River, which they referred to as Baawitigong, meaning "at the cascading rapids". French explorer Étienne...
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