Lake Oswego (pronounced /ɒsˈwiːɡoʊ/) is a city located primarily in Clackamas County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Small portions of the city are also located in neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties. It is located south of Portland and surrounds the private 405-acre (1.6 km²) Oswego Lake. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 35,278. The 2006 estimate is 36,350 residents.
The Clackamas Indians once occupied the land th...
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Lake Oswego (pronounced /ɒsˈwiːɡoʊ/) is a city located primarily in Clackamas County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Small portions of the city are also located in neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties. It is located south of Portland and surrounds the private 405-acre (1.6 km²) Oswego Lake. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 35,278. The 2006 estimate is 36,350 residents.
The Clackamas Indians once occupied the land that later became Lake Oswego, but diseases transmitted by European explorers and traders killed most of the natives. Before the influx of non-native people via the Oregon Trail, the area between the Willamette River and Tualatin River had a scattering of early pioneer homesteads and farms.
As settlers arrived, encouraged by the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 and the subsequent Homestead Act, they found the land under-occupied.
Albert Alonzo Durham founded the town of Oswego in 1847, naming it after his New York birthplace. He also built a saw...
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