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HistoryLincoln Rock was named after a prominent geological feature, visible across the river, which resembles the profile of Abraham Lincoln. According to early newspaper accounts, this rock outcropping was first named in 1898 by Ed Ferguson and Charles Schoff, deckhand and engineer on the Columbia River steamboat Echo. Schoff took a picture of it, and the rock became a point of interest for passengers and crews on all the sternwheelers plying the Columbia. In 1902 another photo of Lincoln Rock in Ladies Home Journal made the landmark famous across the U.S. Lincoln Rock State Park was acquired by the state on April 1, 1980.
Interpretive opportunitiesPark staff offer interpretive programs on most Saturdays from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
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