Solomon Welton Fisher, his brothers and sisters along with William Mortimer Simmons, Ann Fisher Simmons and their children had traveled westward from West Virginia. They left Missouri in the spring of 1850 by covered wagons pulled by oxen, heading for the gold fields of California. After meeting so many discouraged gold seekers, they headed toward the Oregon Country instead.They founded Fisher community. The town had a post office, blacksmith shop, general store, one-room schoolhouse with grades 1-8, and early grange. Later a church was built.
Solomon Welton Fisher (1821-1903), a bachelor, was a trader and the first postmaster at the crossroads. Fisher established a riverboat landing. Wood was cut for fuel for the river steamers. Several steamers stopped every day at the landing to take on cord wood.
William Mortimer Simmons (1817-1878), a family man, was a farmer. He built a two-story house with a large, central brick chimney with four fireplaces. He had a large fruit orchard with all types of apples, pears, peaches, prunes, walnuts and grapes. A riverboat landing was built on Simmons riverfront property. He rented it to Remington who sold wood stacked high along the landing to river steamers for fuel.
Although the small community took the name of Fisher, it was William Simmons who donated an acre of his land for the site of Fisher's Cemetery in honor of his wife, Ann J. Fisher Simmons. Fisher's Cemetery is the oldest established cemetery in Clark County dating to 1852.
Instructions for logging waymark: a photograph is required that shows you (or your GPS receiver, if you are waymarking solo) and the plaque.