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Thirty-seven members of the Camp Nestucca Civilian Conservation Corps constructed the Marys Peak Road, providing public access to recreation areas of pristine streams, forests, and mountain snow.

Picnic at Marys Peak, Benton County, Oregon, circa 1915

Picnic on Marys Peak, about 1915. © BCHM 1994-038.0838.

Horse and buggy trip to Marys Peak, Benton County, Oregon

Image, about 1910, from Willibald Weniger photo album, depicting an unidentified party on Marys Peak. Weniger was a professor at Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State University.
Photo courtesy Oregon State University Archives © P082:92.

Aerial view of Marys Peak, Benton County, OR

View of Marys Peak with blue line, indicating proposed site of a ski lift, circa 1950.
Photo courtesy Oregon State University Archives, John H. Gallagher, Sr., Collection.
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