Champoeg
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- 1861
- Founded
- 1830
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 45.249, -122.897
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Champoeg is a former town in the U.S. state of Oregon. Now a ghost town, it was an important settlement in the Willamette Valley in the early 1840s. Located halfway between Oregon City and Salem, it was the site of the first provisional government of the Oregon Country.