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On this day in 1846 the Oregon Provisional Government permitted Samuel Barlow to construct a toll road over a trail he blazed a year earlier from The Dalles to the upper Clackamas of the Willamette Valley. Believing that "God never made a mountain that he didn't make a way to get over it", Barlow, after much struggle and hardship, retraced his route and built Oregon's first toll road. The new trail crossed the Cascades between Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson.
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