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Oregon City is the county chair of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located upon the Willamette River close the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 37,572. Established in 1829 by the Hudson’s Bay Company, in 1844 it became the first U.S. city west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated.

Known in recent decades as the site of several large paper mills on the Willamette River, the city played a significant role in the forward history of the Oregon Country. It was traditional by Hudson’s Bay Company’s Dr. John McLoughlin in 1829 close the confluence of the Clackamas River behind the Willamette to accept advantage of the capability of Willamette Falls to rule a lumber mill. During the 1840s and 1850s it was the destination for those wanting to file estate claims after traveling the Oregon Trail as the last End on the trail.

It was the capital of the Oregon Territory from its instigation in 1848 until 1851, and rivaled Portland for yet to be supremacy in the area. In 1846, the city’s newspaper, the Oregon Spectator, was the first American newspaper to be published west of the Rocky Mountains. Oregon City College was standard in 1849 as a Baptist school, but was defunct by the 1870s. Oregon City was the site of the Beaver Coins Mint, producing the short-lived independent Oregon Territory currency in 1849.