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Pulpit Rock is a rock about 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, carved by natural elements in an open area on a slight slope. The
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Methodist stations of Mission Bottom and later Mission Mill with Chinookan and Walla Walla escorts. During one such trip provisions dwindled to the point that a horse had to be consumed until salmon could be purchased from a
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Disputes arose in the 1870s between the settlers of the Dalles and the
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The rock currently stands in the intersection of E. 12th and Court streets in the city of
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252:Suphan 1974
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686:2021-11-07
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