349 - Pulpit Rock - Historic United Methodist Sites on Waymarking.com

The OSU Digital Archive has a photo of the rock from about 1900 that shows Joseph Luxello, a Yakima Indian missionary, sitting on the rock. Joseph Luxello, Yakima Indian missionary, sitting on (visit link)

This blog entry in Letters Home (visit link) contains information regarding Pulpit Rock as well.

From the blog:

"Pulpit Rock stands at the intersection of 12th and Court streets in The Dalles, Ore. In 1838, before the roads were there, Methodist preachers founded a mission at that location to convert the Wascopam Indians to Christianity."


"Rev. Jason Lee, with Revs. Daniel Lee and H.K.W. Perkins, founded a Methodist mission there in 1838. They chose the site now known as Pulpit Rock because it overlooked a spring where the Wascopam Indians came to water their horses. It was the fourth Protestant mission in Oregon territory."

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