Evelyn Cooper’s Scappoose: Past and Present provides a comprehensive local history of the fertile plains nestled between the Tualatin Mountains and Multnomah Channel. Drawing its name from the Chinookan term for "gravelly ground," the text details the traditional seasonal villages of the Multnomah people, followed by the establishment of early nineteenth-century farmsteads by mountain men and Hudson's Bay Company retirees. Cooper chronicles the arrival of Oregon Trail wagon trains, the drainage of alluvial flats for intensive cattle and dairy farming, and the 1883 construction of the Northern Pacific Railway branch through Chapman Landing and Warren. The narrative traces the community's transformation into a residential and light industrial center, detailing the civic development of surrounding enclaves such as South Scappoose, Chapman, Spitzenberg, and Corey Hill.

Chapman (Or.), Chapman Landing (Or.), City of Scappoose, Columbia County (Or.) History, Corey Hill (Or.), Dairying Oregon Scappoose History, Frontier and pioneer life Oregon Scappoose, History, Multnomah Channel (Or.) History, Scappoose (Or.) History, South Scappoose (Or.), Spitzenberg (Or.), Warren (Or.)

Published by the Scappoose Historical Society. Includes local business index and pioneer maps.

Published by the Scappoose Historical Society. Includes local business index and pioneer maps.