United States if not in the world. The old Barlow road began near the present town of Wampanitia and ended a few miles south of the town of Sandy, where it then joined the old Foster road. It was originally about ninety miles long.
Multnomah Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, placed a bronze marker at Rhododendron Inn on this historic road in 1916.
The Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers unveiled a bronze tablet to the pioneer builder of this road on the 14th of February, 1923, the sixty-fourth anniversary of the admission of Oregon into the Union. The tablet was not placed till 1924, on account of the difficulty of securing a title to the small tract of land upon which it stands. But on July 27, 1925, the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers and two Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution united in a joint dedication. The inscriptions on the two tablets placed on the same large boulder at Government Camp are as follows:
Samuel Kimbrough Barlow, Oregon Pioneer from Kentucky, built the first wagon road over the Cascade Mountains, passing this spot, 1845-1846.
The building of railroads since has been of less importance to the community than the opening of this road which enabled the settlers to bring their wagons and teams directly into the Willamette Valley.
Erected and dedicated by the Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers, 1923. This estimate of the Barlow road was spoken by Judge Matthew P. Deady of the Federal Bench in an address before the Oregon Pioneer Association.
The wording on the other tablet completes the epigrammatic story in bronze:
Susannah Lee Barlow, wife of S. K. Barlow. A
