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The pioneer road here detoured the Columbia River rapids and Mount Hood to the Willamette Valley. At first it followed an old Indian trail, and its later name was Barlow Road. Travel was difficult, with wagons snubbed to trees by ropes or held back by drags of cut trees. Early travelers named the hill from the resemblance of native leaves to laurel.
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