Day 95. Champoeg SP, OR

The name Champoeg isn’t French after all. It is said to be a corruption of a Kalapuya Indian word meaning ‘place where carrot-like roots are found’. Kalapuya is now a dead language; prior to this bit of research I’d never even heard of them, must have been a small group. They are now included in the Grande Ronde nation, as are several other small area tribes. It so happens that my niece Carina is the housing director for the Grande Ronde group.
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This park was the site of The Champoeg Meetings of 1841-43. The Meetings were held to organize a much-needed provisional government and to vote on which country the citizens wanted to be a part of, the US or Great Britain. It was a near thing, with the US winning by only 2 votes. The Brits had more of a presence in the Portland area at that time, had a large Hudson’s Bay Company fur trading post in Vancouver, WA that was established in 1824.
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In the mid 1800s, there used to be good sized town here called Butteville. It was wiped out when the Willamette River flooded and was never rebuilt. One old store survived and is still in operation.
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Trish and daughter Laura are doing the factory outlet stores today (eeeeeeeeeeuuuuu!) while I research movie streaming. Can I stream movies to my laptop via the droid when the two are USB tethered? Also have to check on the replacement EDGE radio at Camping World. It was supposed to arrive last Thursday and they were supposed to call me when it arrived. From my rants in prior posts you know how much confidence I have in CW, gotta keep bugging them until they’re so sick of you that they actually do something to get you off their back.