Samuel Christopher Lancaster (1864 – March 4, 1941) was an American engineer and landscape architect, known for his work on the Columbia River Highway.

Samuel Lancaster was born in Magnolia, Mississippi in 1864, and grew up in Jackson, Tennessee.

[1] He came to Oregon in 1908 and was hired by Sam Hill to design his experimental roads at Maryhill in 1909.

[2] He did a plan for the campus of Linfield College before beginning supervision of the Columbia River Highway in 1913.

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