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2024 Pony Party!

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The cutest party on the Columbia is back for its third year! Join the Cascade Locks Historical Museum and celebrate trains and community at this year's PONY PARTY on Saturday, July 6 from 10am-3pm.  🚂

Come learn about trains, make train crafts, play games, bounce bounce bounce in the bouncy house, check out the museum, sing along with John Stipan, then bounce some more!  

Admission is $5 for ages 6 and up, and FREE for museum members. Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the gate. Entry to the event includes the bounce house, live music, games, crafts, photo ops, and museum admission. Concessions, souvenirs, and prize drawing tickets will be available for purchase. 

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2023 PONY PARTY!

Join us at the Cascade Locks Historical Museum on July 22, 2023 from 10am-3pm for our second annual PONY PARTY! This event is a celebration of the history of transportation in the Columbia River Gorge, featuring the Oregon Pony, the first locomotive built entirely on the West Coast.

Admission is $5 for ages 6 and up, and free for Cascade Locks residents and museum members. Tickets are available in advance and at the gate. Members and locals can request a discount code to reserve their free tickets in advance.

Entry to the event includes a bounce house, live music, games, crafts, photo ops, and museum admission. Concessions, souvenirs, and prize drawing tickets will be available for purchase.

Live music this year will be a jam session. Bring your instrument and play along with your host, museum secretary John Stipan.

Event Sponsors!

Thanks to Buddy’s Arcade for sponsoring the Pony Party!
Sponsor the event to have your logo or business name appear here. Sponsorships are available now!

Sponsorship Levels

$500- Locomotive Sponsor

  • Prominent branding included in all event communications

  • Your company logo in a prominent location at the event

  • Your logo linked on the partners page of our website for one year

  • 10 complimentary tickets to the event

$250- Boxcar Sponsor

  • Branding included in all event communications

  • Your company logo in a prominent location at the event

  • Your logo linked on the partners page of our website for one year

  • 4 complimentary tickets to the event

$100- Caboose Sponsor

  • Your company name included in all event communications

  • Your company name in a prominent location at the event

  • Your logo linked on the partners page of our website for one year

  • 2 complimentary tickets to the event



Coming Soon- Images of America: Cascade Locks and Canal

Explore hundreds of detailed historic photographs from the Cascades of the Columbia, through the construction and operation of the Cascade Locks and Canal, to its final inundation by the Bonneville Dam and development into the beautiful park it is today.

Preorder today for the August 8, 2022 release!

Join us for the book release party in the Marine Park Pavilion on Monday, August 8, or get your copy signed at our book signing at the museum on Saturday, August 13.

SUMMARY OF THE BOOK

A stretch of tumbling white water five miles long, the Cascades of the Columbia River were the single greatest barrier to inland river trade and travel in the Pacific Northwest. One solution, the Cascade Locks and Canal, took nearly 18 painstaking years to construct. From 1878 to 1896, hundreds of laborers blasted, chipped, and hauled over 800,000 cubic yards of rock and debris from the riverbed, carved and laid masonry, and welded steel to create the locks. After their completion, thousands of trips, millions of dollars in freight, and hundreds of thousands of passengers made their way through the locks. Made redundant in 1938 by the completion of the Bonneville Dam, the remnants of the structure are still visible today in Cascade Locks, Oregon.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The Friends of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum is the nonprofit organization that manages the Cascade Locks Historical Museum. Compiled by executive director Janice Crane, this text includes historic photographs from the collection of the Cascade Locks Historical Museum with additions from private collections and museums along the Columbia River.

ABOUT ARCADIA PUBLISHING

As the nation’s leading publisher of books of local history and local interest, Arcadia’s mission is to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another. Arcadia is the home of unique hyper-local histories of countless hometowns across all fifty states, as well as books on local food, beer and wine; and stories of famous hauntings, all one American city and town at a time. Arcadia has an extraordinary catalog of 17,000 local titles and publishes 500 new books each year. Arcadia counts among its imprints Pelican Publishing, a 100-year old independent press based in New Orleans, and the critically acclaimed Wildsam Publishing, publisher of highly curated travel literature and guides. Using its proprietary Store Match system, Arcadia can create a highly customized hyper-local book assortment for any storefront in the nation.