The Other Cape Horn…

This is the Cape Horn between The Dalles and Celilo, not the one we think of today...

http://www.northwestphotography.org/Plate11.html
Plate 11: Cape Horn, Near Celilo
Carleton E. Watkins
Albumen silver mammoth print, 1867

http://www.northwestphotography.org/Plate80.html
Plate 80: Upper Cape Horn
Lily E. White
Platinum print, 1903-1905

This is pretty clearly west of Celilo.

The CRH East of Celilo Falls
Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 223.

Not sure when, or if ever, it was called Applegate Point…

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
Catalog Num: 1999.13.94BB
Condition: Good
Date:
Location: The Dalles, Oregon
Title:
Content: No. 160. Applegate Point, on Old Oregon - Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore.
Other Notes: description from above on front no correspondence "sample"
Photographer: B.C. Markham, The Dalles, Oregon
Copyright:http://www.gorgediscovery.org/photoarchive/newDetails.asp?offset=980&ID=2706

Cliffs East of The Dalles (2014)
General area of the Columbia River Highway.
Wasco County, Oregon. March 28, 2014
Copyright © 2014 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved

 

 

First two photos from Wild Beauty: Photography of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957

See also…  http://recreatingthehcrh.blogspot.com/2014/03/then-now-west-of-celilo.html

Then & Now: West of Celilo

This photo below is approaching the cliffs seen in the "Cape Horn" photo below it.

Cliffs East of The Dalles (2014)
Wasco County, Oregon. March 28, 2014
Copyright © 2014 A. F. Litt, All Rights Reserved

The CRH East of Celilo Falls
Clarence E. Mershon. The Columbia River Highway: From the Sea to the Wheat Fields of Eastern Oregon. Portland: Guardian Peaks Enterprises. 2006. 1st Edition. 223.

This photo is pretty clearly mislabeled. 

I suppose there might have been a mistake made locating the photo since these cliffs resemble the one where the old tunnel was, west of the Deschutes River and east of Celilo Falls.

Looking at the imagery below from Google Earth, though, there is little doubt that the location of the old photo is between The Dalles Dam and the Trunk Railroad crossing.

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location, I-84 Westbound Lanes
Google Street View Imagery Date: October 2007

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location, I-84 Eastbound Lanes
Google Street View Imagery Date: December 2007

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location, Ground Level
Google Earth Imagery Date: August 19, 2011

If this is the correct location of the old photo, then there are probably traces of the old highway underwater in the pond south of the freeway.

CRH "East" Of Celilo Falls Location
Google Earth Imagery Date: August 19, 2011

No. 160. Applegate Point, on Old Oregon - Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore.
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center Photo Archive
Catalog Num: 1999.13.94BB
Condition: Good
Date:
Location: The Dalles, Oregon
Title:
Content: No. 160. Applegate Point, on Old Oregon - Trail Highway, near Celilo Ore.
Other Notes: description from above on front no correspondence "sample"
Photographer: B.C. Markham, The Dalles, Oregon
Copyright:
http://www.gorgediscovery.org/photoarchive/newDetails.asp?offset=980&ID=2706