Barlow Road Oregon Trail Toll Strongbox — Clackamas County

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Barlow Road Oregon Trail Toll Strongbox — Clackamas County

Lost Treasure OR • Clackamas County County
Description
Mount Hood legend of unrecovered toll specie along Samuel Barlow's 1846 road — the five-dollar-per-wagon route that let emigrants bypass the deadly Columbia River rapids at The Dalles.
Historical Notes
After 1843 emigrants risked rafts through The Dalles rapids — N.M. Bogart recorded frail craft caught in whirlpools — Samuel Barlow cleared a toll road around Mount Hood in 1846. Most travelers paid five dollars per wagon to avoid the Columbia. Toll-road folklore imagines strongboxes buried when Barlow's company failed financially, when snow closed the Cascades, or when emigrants cached payroll before abandoning wagons on the final leg. Coordinates approximate the Barlow Road corridor near Government Camp and Zigzag on Mount Hood. National forest land — legend only.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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