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Hidden along Oregon City’s riverbank, a graffiti-covered landmark gets new life
Hidden along Oregon City’s riverbank, a graffiti-covered landmark gets new life
Hidden along Oregon City’s riverbank, a graffiti-covered landmark gets new life

Published on: 05/20/2026

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In February, the Rivers of Life Center purchased the old Gladstone pump station, where it had once been located.Jerry Herrmann stands on the spiral steps of Gladstone's abandoned water intake tower with Thelma Haggenmiller, a tourism promoter who has agreed to help market the site. OregonianIn February, the Rivers of Life Center purchased the old Gladstone pump station, where it had once been located.The new River Resources Museum has risen from the ruins of an old Gladstone water pumping structure. Regular classes and programs will begin soon at the museum OregonianEnvironmental Learning Center volunteer Mike Huffman mounts a sign, recycled, of course, above the entrance to the new River Resources Museum on the Clackamas River in Gladstone. The center hopes to open the museum in the next couple of weeks. OregonianAbove | A sliver of Gladstone that lies across the Clackamas River, surrounded by Oregon City, is home to the River Resource Museum and other nonprofit endeavors of Jerry Herrmann. Oregonian MainJerry Herrmann raises native plants, fruit trees as well as some vegetables at his River Resource Museum on the Clackamas River. The plants are used in civic beautification projects, funded mainly by public grants. LC- Steve Mayes/The Oregonian/OregonLiveIn February, the Rivers of Life Center purchased the old Gladstone pump station, where it had once been located.

Hidden down a gravel path, in a wooded peninsula along the Clackamas River, the old Gladstone pump station rises like a concrete relic, graffiti-covered and largely forgotten.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2026/05/hidden-along-oregon-citys-riverbank-a-graffiti-covered-landmark-gets-new-life.html

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