Wascopam Mission

During its operation, the mission consisted of a schoolhouse, garden, stable, barn, and two dwellings along with a cleared pasture adjacent to the wood huts used by the Native American villagers.

During one such trip provisions dwindled to the point that a horse had to be consumed until salmon could be purchased from a Clackamas village.

The Methodist missionaries preached at the location, with some initial success in converting some of the local Indigenous peoples.

[11] A mural on a building in downtown The Dalles features the rock prior to the development of the current roads and neighborhood around it.

The remaining indigenous people inhabiting the surrounding region were evicted by the U.S. Army to the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.