Methodist Mission
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The Methodist Mission was founded in Oregon Country in 1834 by the Reverend Jason Lee. The mission was started to educate the Native Americans in the Willamette Valley and grew into an important center for politics and economics in the early settlement period of Oregon.
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[edit] Foundation
- Missionary Movement
- The Lees
- HBC
- The ship
- Wyeth
[edit] Operations
[edit] Mission Bottom
The Methodist Mission was originally located on the Willamette River at the present-day Willamette Mission State Park, in an area known as Mission Bottom.[1]
[edit] Mission Mill
The mission moved to present-day Salem, near where the Mission Mill Museum is located.
[edit] Others
- Indian School
- Great Reinforcements
- Branch locations
[edit] Demise
Disease wiped out most of the native population in the Willamette Valley beginning in 1829. The Columbian Exchange introduced diseases that the natives had little or no immunity to, and their populations plummeted as a result. Estimates place the death toll near 90% of the Native Americans in the Lower Columbia region from the 1829 outbreak.[1]
With few natives to Christianize, it was only a matter of time before the mission would have little purpose.
[edit] Legacy
- The Oregon Institute
- Willamette University
- John Minto buys much of the land.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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Pioneer History of Oregon (1806–1890) |
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| Topics |
Oregon Country · Oregon Treaty · Oregon missionaries · Executive Committee · Oregon Trail · Oregon boundary dispute · Pacific Fur Company · Provisional Government of Oregon · Hudson's Bay Company |
| Events |
Treaty of 1818 · Russo-American Treaty · Champoeg Meetings · Whitman massacre · Donation Land Claim Act |
| Places |
Fort Astoria · Oregon Mission · Fort Vancouver · Champoeg, Oregon · Fort William · Barlow Road · Whitman Mission |
| People |
George Abernethy · Sam Barlow · Tabitha Brown · Abigail Scott Duniway · Philip Foster · Peter French · Joseph Gale · William Gilpin · David Hill · Jason Lee · Asa Lovejoy · John McLoughlin · Joseph Meek · Ezra Meeker · John Minto · Joel Palmer · Sager orphans · Henry H. Spalding · Marcus Whitman · Narcissa Whitman · Ewing Young |
| Oregon History |
Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History |
