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Crow,Gidday Idahodutch
We know Alfred Lewellyn below was involved in orchards you can see his property approximately 2 miles from Lot withcomb's property that eventual became the village or town of Milwaukie where he erected the church on the map below.
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The good thing you can see the structures on this map at the time here is is blow up of the map.
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Another interesting this the orogon historical socity tells of two graves?
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Crow
Good day Crow,Crow,
Fantastic information my friend. 😁👍
You have outdone yourself 🥳🥳
Makes me want to plan a trip 😎😂😂
Hello CW0909wonder if the probate records are still accessible from the time he was a Judge in Seattle
from the article @ Atlas Obscura
The map had been discovered a few years earlier after the death of a Seattle judge named Everett Smith.
His son, Irving, had found it among his father’s papers. At the time, Irving told the Oregon Historical
Quarterly that his father had never mentioned the map and left no written explanation, but several decades
later, Irving told the Oregonian that he learned the map had previously belonged to an indigent man whose
estate had been settled in Judge Smith’s court.
There Maybe Could Possibly Be a Treasure Buried Under Portland, Oregon
At least according to a hand-drawn map of mysterious origin.www.atlasobscura.com
Now that I’ve looked at those 2 “things” a few more times. I don’t think they are graves, or headstones.Idahodutch.
From what i read from historical society there several private family grave yards and some of the remains disinterred and removed to pioneer Cemetery.
The picture you show of what possibly looks like two graves? I do not know what they are? Interesting all the same.
Crow
Try a different date perhaps. A summer dry time.Now that I’ve looked at those 2 “things” a few more times. I don’t think they are graves, or headstones.
The road to Portland, from the old church, would have been, what is now, Milwaukie Avenue. (McLaughlin Blvd, did not come until much later.)
I do think the “house, the barn, and the 2 graves were all on the same property.
Orchards certainly fit with the landowners at the time, and for that area.
I couldn’t find anything specific about moving any pioneer graves, but I really don’t think the Milwaukie pioneer cemetery is where the loot got buried. Too far from Portland. Too many acres, practically all covered in streets and neighborhoods, and businesses. Parks are pretty far from Milwaukie Ave… and don’t really fit the map…. To far off the road to see the barn next to the graves.
I tried to look up the history of Llewelyn Elementary School, thinking since it’s about 80 years old, maybe the old house used to be nearer the road at that spot, and after getting removed, that then the school was built? 🤷🏼♂️
My wife attended that school for a couple years, when she was young.
So maybe the graves were moved 🤷🏼♂️.
Maybe they were grave markers for pets ?
Time for me to punt 😵💫😁
Idahodutch
😂😂I believe, a cross on the top of the building would be the proper depiction for a church, if this would been the case.. To me all the buildings close to the " PORT " look like a mill complex or some type of factory complex.