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Archive Home > 2002 > March > 17 > The dams that define Bend

The dams that define Bend

The town was forever changed when a dam was built in 1915 to attract timber companies

By Anne Aurand / The Bulletin
March 17, 2002

Long before logging trucks existed, horses dragged fresh-cut trees to the train tracks that wound through the woods surrounding Bend. Train cars dumped logs into the Deschutes River, where they floated in the pool behind a dam.

Almost 90 years later, that dam, near what is now the Colorado....

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