Description: Old Detroit began as an Oregon Pacific Railroad labor camp in 1889 and established a post office in October 1891. Four years later, lumber magnet A.B. Hammond organized several logging camps near Old Detroit and transported timber to Mill City via the newly named Oregon Central and Eastern Railroad, transforming Detroit into “a residential, trade, and shipping center.” However, the onslaught of the Great Depression and Hammond’s subsequent passing in 1934 wrecked this community’s economy until the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) started purchasing property near the soon-to-be construction site of the Detroit Dam in 1946. This dam displaced local residents and forced them to relocate their town onto land they bought from the Hammond Lumber Company in 1952. Nevertheless, some locals benefited from the Detroit Dam and its reservoir, Detroit Lake, since they brought tourist activity to the region.