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Mt. Hood Lots
The Mt. Hood "corridor" starts east of Boring in outside of Sandy, Oregon and continues through the "Hoodlands" (Brightwood, Wemme, Welches, Rhododendron & ZigZag), though Forest Service land, to Government Camp on the south side on Mt. Hood, and along the mountain's east side towards Hood River. The area includes an elementary school and a middle school, a branch of the Clackamas County Bank, multiple U.S. Post Offices, a fire station, Hoodland Shopping Center, as well as other businesses.
This is the summer and winter playground of the Northwest, summer home to the US Ski Team.
Brightwood traces its roots to at least the 1890s
Welches was named after Samuel Welch, a homesteader who settled near Welches Creek in 1882
Wemme was named for E. Henry Wemme, a Portland businessman who bought a Locomobile in 1899, the first automobile in Oregon.
Rhododendron was renamed Rhododendron in 1920, (after being named "Zig Zag" and "Zigzag") because of the large number of rhododendrons growing near there
Government Camp was given its name by settlers traveling the Barlow Road, who discovered several wagons abandoned there by the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen.
