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Castle Rock – Historic Print

Castle Rock — historic image
Castle Rock. Historic image from the Oregon collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Castle Rock comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Castle Rock

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The title points to a rocky outcrop, the kind of landmark that gave many western places the name Castle Rock, though the record does not say which one is shown. Oregon has many such formations, where volcanic basalt cliffs and pinnacles stand out against river valleys and forested hills. Pictures like this one show how these landscapes looked before roads, rail lines, and towns changed the views around them. What stands out is how sharply the rock separates from its surroundings, which is likely why the people who named it chose a name that suggests fortifications.

Original scan2,370 × 3,395 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi
Reference38 OR Castle Rock

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