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Oswego Lake is in the center of town.
Flag of Lake Oswego Flag Official seal of Lake Oswego Lake Oswego is positioned in the US Lake Oswego - Lake Oswego Lake Oswego / s wi o / is a town/city in the State of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties. Located south of Portland encircling the 405-acre (1.64 km2) Oswego Lake, the town was established in 1847 and incorporated as Oswego in 1910.
The town/city was the core of Oregon's brief iron trade in the late 19th century and is today an well-to-do suburb of Portland.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a total populace of 36,619, a 3.8% increase over the 2000 populace of 35,278.
The Clackamas Indians once occupied the territory that later became Lake Oswego, but diseases transmitted by European explorers and traders killed most of the natives.
Before the influx of non-native citizens via the Oregon Trail, the region between the Willamette River and Tualatin River had a scattering of early pioneer homesteads and farms.
Albert Alonzo Durham established the town of Oswego in 1847, naming it after Oswego, New York. He assembled a sawmill on Sucker Creek (now Oswego Creek), the town's first industry. During this early reconstructionin Oregon history, most trade proceeded from Portland to Oregon City via the Willamette River, and up the Tualatin River Valley through Tualatin, Scholls, and Hillsboro.
A landing in the city's present-day George Rogers Park is thought to have been advanced by Durham around 1850 for lumber transport; another landing was near the Tryon Creek supply into the Willamette.
Within two years the first blast furnace on the West Coast was built, patterned after the arched furnaces common in northwestern Connecticut, and the business set out to make Oswego into the Pittsburgh of the West. In 1878, the business was sold off to out-of-state owners and retitled the Oswego Iron Company, and in 1882, Portland financiers Simeon Gannett Reed and Henry Villard purchased the company and retitled it the Oregon Iron and Steel Company. The Portland Oregon Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) is positioned in Lake Oswego.
The barns appeared in Oswego in 1886, in the form of the Portland and Willamette Valley Railway.
A seven-mile-long line provided Oswego with a direct link to Portland.
The barns 's arrival was a different blessing; locally, it promoted residentiary evolution along its path, which enabled Oswego to expanded beyond its industrialized roots.
But nationally, the continued expansion of freight barns fitness gave easy small-town access to cheaper and higher character iron from the Great Lakes region.
The success of this trade greatly stimulated the evolution of Oswego, which by this time had four general stores, a bank, two barber shops, two hotels, three churches, nine saloons, a drugstore, and even an opera home. Control of shipping and barns s was held under the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, later to turn into the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
Lake Oswego Railroad Bridge athwart the Willamette River, Lake Oswego, Oregon, April 2008 The Oregon Iron and Steel Company adapted to the new century by comprehensive programs in territory development, selling large tracts of the 24,000 acres (97 km2) it owned, and power, building a plant on Oswego Creek starting in 1905, and erecting power poles in subsequent years to supply power to Oswego people.
With the water needs of the smelters tailing off, the recreational potential of the lake and town was freed to precarious rapidly. In 1910, the town of Oswego was incorporated. The Southern Pacific Railroad, which had acquired the P&WVR line at the end of the 19th century, widened it from narrow to standard gauge and in 1914, electrified it, providing rapid, clean, and quiet service between Oswego and Portland.
One of the territory developers benefiting from revenue by OI&S was Paul Murphy, whose Oswego Lake Country Club helped promote the new town/city as a place to "live where you play." Murphy was instrumental in developing the first water fitness to supply the reaches of the city, and also played a major part in encouraging the design of fine homes in the 1930s and 1940s that ultimately would establish Oswego as an attractive place to live.
In the 1940s and 1950s, continued evolution helped spread Oswego's residentiary areas. Mass transit service after the end of electric interurban service was provided by Oregon Motor Stages, but that business suspended all operations following a drivers strike in 1954. In 1955, a newly formed private company, Intercity Buses, Inc., began operating bus service connecting Oswego with downtown Portland and Oregon City. This service was taken over by Tri - Met in 1970.
In 1960, Oswego was retitled Lake Oswego when it took in part of neighboring Lake Grove. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.35 square miles (29.40 km2), of which, 10.68 square miles (27.66 km2) is territory and 0.67 square miles (1.74 km2) is water. That region does not include the more than 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) of unincorporated territory inside the urban services boundary as defined by Clackamas County. Oswego Lake is a private lake (an expansion of an earlier natural lake, titled Waluga (wild swan) by Clackamas Indians) managed by the Lake Oswego Corporation. The lake supports watercraft, and a dock floats at the lake's east end where boaters can disembark and walk to the close-by businesses.
Every five to ten years, the water level in the lake is lowered a several feet by opening the gates on the dam and allowing water to flow into Oswego Creek and on to the Willamette River, enabling lakefront property owners to conduct repairs on docks and boathouses. In 2010, the lake was lowered approximately 24 feet (7.3 m) to allow for assembly of a new sewage line, the lowest lake level since 1962 when the initial sewage line was installed. The town/city extends up Mount Sylvania and through Lake Grove towards Tualatin.
Lake Oswego is one of the most well-to-do suburbs of Portland.
In the city, the populace dispersal was 24.8% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 31.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.4% who are 65 years of age or older.
The town/city has a council-manager form of government, which vests policy-making authority in an elected, volunteer town/city council.
Almost all of the city's employees, which include part-time staff amounting to approximately 342 full-time equivalents, report to the town/city manager.
As of September 2013, there are 21 recognized neighborhood associations (associations including lakefront property are marked with a symbol): Birdshill, Blue Heron , Bryant , North Shore-Country Club , Evergreen , First Addition, Forest Highlands, Glenmorrie, Hallinan Heights, Holly Orchard, Lake Grove, Lakewood , Mc - Vey-South Shore , Old Town, Palisades , Rosewood, Skylands, Uplands, Waluga, Westlake, and Westridge. Lake Oswego High School The Lake Oswego School District is inside the town/city boundaries and serves the city's approximately 7,000 students, with a ratio of 23 students per instructor.
The two high schools in the precinct are Lake Oswego High School and Lakeridge High School.
The junior high schools are Lakeridge Junior High and Lake Oswego Junior High.
An additional swim park is open to those who live in the boundaries of the old Lake Grove School District.
The private Oswego Lake Country Club and neighboring equestrian riding club add to the recreational amenities of the city.
Lake Oswego has one enhance library, part of the Library Information Network of Clackamas County.
Companies based in Lake Oswego include Holiday Retirement.
According to Lake Oswego's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Lake Oswego School District 568 2 City of Lake Oswego 354 This is a partial list of notable residents, past and present, of Lake Oswego: Allen Alley (1954 ), founder of Pixelworks, Republican nominee for Oregon State Treasurer in 2008, Republican candidate for Oregon Governor in 2010 Lake Oswego has two sister cities: a b "City of Lake Oswego".
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