Grant's Getaways: Sumpter Dredge
Gold mining once ruled the lands of Eastern Oregon -- a moment in the state's history that faded by turn of the 19th century - During a brief rebound in the gold mining industry in the 1930s (and continuing until 1954), monstrous gold-dredging machines ravaged the Sumpter River Valley floor. Square-bowed and built of steel and wood and iron, the Sumpter dredge (one of three dredges that worked in the valley) lifted and sifted the terrain, reaping a golden harvest worth an estimated $12 million. These days the dredge is an Oregon State Park that invites visitors to go aboard and explore its nooks and crannies with guided tour leaders who give perspective on a distant time and activity that left lasting marks on the Sumpter area.
America West: Sumpter Valley Railroad and Dredge, Oregon
In 1971, a small group of volunteers set out to rebuild the narrow gauge Sumpter Valley Railway in Eastern Oregon.
Nearly all of today's excursion and museum railroads operate on abandoned rights-of-way. The Sumpter Valley Railway, located 22 miles southwest of Baker City Oregon, on U.S. Highway 7, has a unique characteristic over all of these railroads. Volunteers built the railroad themselves. Although the road bed and track is mostly on original Sumpter Valley Railway right-of-way, the original track was scrapped in 1947, and nearly all of the original road bed had eroded away. With an almost all volunteer work force, the SVRR has rebuilt over 7 miles of track, and is still growing. At the end of a typical 5-mile excursion, the RR makes a stop at the Sumpter Valley Dredge, a State historic site related to past gold exploration.
Sumpter Oregon Gold Dredge - Short Video Tour Inside The sumpter valley Dredge
Sumpter Valley Dredge
Sumpter Valley Dredge, Sumpter, Oregon. One of the many nice historical sites to see while visiting eastern Oregon. Sumpter started out as a gold mining town. Now it caters to the outdoor enthusiasts. There are a number of nice campgrounds close by, or enjoy a day trip up into the Elkhorn mountains.
Sumpter Valley Dredge State Heritage Site
Also check out the nearby Sumpter Valley Railroad
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The Sumpter Super Dredge 2010
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Hunter Noack's 'Classical Music in the Wild' at the Sumpter Valley Dredge
KGW meteorologist Matt Zaffino chats with classical pianist Hunter Noack about his remote grand piano concerts, this one at at the Sumpter Valley Dredge in Eastern Oregon.
Sumpter Gold Dredge near Baker City Oregon
Short video looking at the guts of the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge in Baker County, Oregon.
Sumpter Valley Dredge news clip
Sumpter Valley Dredge 3
This is a historic floating bucket-line dredge, at the town of Sumpter, in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon, which extracted many millions of dollars in gold.
Sumpter Dredge Baker County ExplOregon
Gold miners didn't do the environment any favors when dredging became popular in Baker County. The state made a park out of Oregon's last example of this time period. The hope is to remind Oregonians that there are consequences for everything we do.
Sumpter Oregon Gold Dredge - Short Video Tour
Here's a short video tour of the Sumpter Gold Dredge. Taken on our 1100 mile off road motorcycle trip.
Sumpter Valley Dredge Tour
Taking a quiet tour of the Sumpter Valley Dredge on Halloween.
Sumpter, Oregon
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Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States.The population was 204 at the 2010 census.Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders.The name was inspired by a rock as smooth and round as a cannonball, which reminded a local resident of the American Civil War and Fort Sumter.
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Sumpter, Oregon
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Sumpter, Oregon
Sumpter is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 204 at the 2010 census. Sumpter is named after Fort Sumter by its founders. The name was inspired by a rock as smooth and round as a cannonball, which reminded a local resident of the American Civil War and Fort Sumter.
Baker County was named for Edward Dickinson Baker, a U.S. Senator from Oregon who was killed in the Battle of Ball's Bluff during the American Civil War. Sumpter, first settled by Euro-Americans during this war, was named after Fort Sumter in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The fort was often mentioned in war dispatches read by the settlers. An account in the Baker Democrat–Herald many decades later reported that a round rock found in the area in the early 1860s had looked to residents like a cannonball and, reinforced by the war news, had reminded them of Fort Sumter.
In 1883, Joseph D. Young became the first postmaster of Sumpter, and, according to his grandson, was not allowed by the U.S. Post Office to use the old name, Sumter. Since freight to the region then depended on pack mules, Young chose the form Sumpter, which was close to the original spelling and evoked the term sumpter mule.
The community was platted in 1889, becoming a mining boom town about 10 years later. Until transportation by rail became feasible in the area, Sumpter was little more than a huddle of crude log cabins.
A narrow gauge railway reached Sumpter in 1897. Built by David C. Eccles, the Sumpter Valley Railway (SVR) ran from Baker City through Sumpter and on to Prairie City, which it reached in 1907. Until the line shut down in the 1930s, ranchers, mining interests, and timber companies used it to move freight.
Shortly after the SVR arrived, the city expanded near a set of deep-shaft gold mines with a combined total of of tunnels. The population grew to more than 2,000. Sumpter ...
Skeleton Creek-I FOUND THE DREDGE
Made By Alexis. I have loacated the dredge. Skeleton Creek was based off of a small town named Sumpter Organ. Loook It Uuuup!