The Barlow Trail branch of the Oregon Trail formally ended at the Phillip Foster Farm near Eagle Creek, and from there immigrants spread out along several routes to Oregon City and beyond, including one that passed this spot by way of Gronlund Road and others that extended to Holcomb Road and what is now Clackamas. Horace Baker, born December 8, 1802, in Windsor County, Vermont according to his epitaph, settled with Jane Baker near the mouth of Clear Creek on the south side of the Clackamas River, about half a mile northwest of her brother Mark Hattan, taking up land because of the mountain of basalt on its western part. Horace later attested that he and Jane had agreed in Illinois in 1845 to live together as man and wife, but because they were not legally married her claim to 320 acres was first denied and later approved, and they were married on September 19, 1852. Horace was a man of many pursuits, making and selling wooden water pumps before that work gave way to quarrying, operating a ferry, and farming; he also served as Judge of Elections in Oregon City in 1849 and 1850, ran unsuccessfully for Justice of the Peace two or more times in the early 1850s, and was involved in the incorporation of the Oregon City Water Company on January 17, 1854. In 1872 he built and operated a ferry across the Clackamas River, and after high water destroyed it in 1882, a covered bridge built across the river the following year at the site of today's bridge was named Baker's Bridge in his memory. Horace died in 1882 and Jane died in 1898.