It’s been a busy couple of days, so playing catch-up on the blogs. On Friday, we left our friend’s house in Logan to drive to Baker City, Oregon. This would be our second stay, as we stopped for a night there last year on our way east after having left Vancouver Island. We didn’t see or do much last time, so we tried to explore a bit more this time since we arrived earlier in the day.
from Logan, Utah, to Baker City, Oregon
What to know about Baker City. It is the seat of Baker County, Oregon, and has a population of about 11,000. It was named after Edward Dickinson Baker, the only US Senator ever killed in military combat. He died in 1861 during the US Civil War.
eo Adler died in 1993 at age 98 and bequeathed $22 million
to Baker County.
in front of a bookstore downtown
Perhaps one of the most interesting finds downtown was an agri sculpture that our friends in Logan had found listed in their Atlas Obscura app. This is a scale model of a salt block licked into this shape by cattle, horses, and sheep. Since the region is deficient in trace minerals, blocks of salt are placed out to supplement livestock’s diet. In Baker County, these blocks are then collected annually and auctioned off to support research for Parkinson’s Disease.
It was built in 1889 during a gold mining boom.
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