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On this day in 1864 the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road was incorporated. The route through the Cascades east of Sweet Home was discovered by Andrew Wiley, who with friends decided to prepare the trail for public use. In February 1860, the company published the following: "If the people do not aide us in the work, and thus make it a free road, we will go on and open it ourselves and claim a charter to the exclusive right of the road." In 1866 the company was granted the right to charge toll and in 1868 the road was completed.
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