George Rogers Park is Lake Oswego's first community park and one of its most diverse.
 Situated on the Willamette River, the park is the site of significant Native American activity over 10,000 years ago.
In the early 19th century, the river landing at the mouth of Oswego Creek was a convenient camping place for explorers, fur traders, and pioneers.
 In the words of a Lake Oswego resident, it was "a stopping place, a sort of relay station for boats both large and small, plying up and down the river between Astoria and Champoeg."

in 1850, Albert Alonzo Durham and his wife Miranda filed a Donation Land Claim on 640 acres that included the river landing and the creek .
Durham build a sawmill on the upper part of the creek and shipped lumber to San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii.
 He founded a town on the bluff above the river and named it after Oswego, New York.
 The same features that attracted Durham to this spot made it an ideal location for an iron furnace.
 The lake provided waterpower and the landing provided access to shipping.
 The landing remained the town's transportation hub until the end of the steamboat era.
 For the next 60 years, the beach was an unofficial park where people launched boats, fished, swam, and picnicked.
 Every spring between 75 and 250 Gypsies arrived to camp beside the river for two to three weeks.

In 1945, the City purchased the site for a municipal park, and in 1952 named it after George Rogers.
George Rogers Park is Lake Oswego's first community park and one of its most diverse.  Situated on the Willamette River, the park is the site of significant Native American activity over 10,000 years ago. In the early 19th century, the river landing at the mouth of Oswego Creek was a convenient camping place for explorers, fur traders, and pioneers.  In the words of a Lake Oswego resident, it was "a stopping place, a sort of relay station for boats both large and small, plying up and down the river between Astoria and Champoeg."
in 1850, Albert Alonzo Durham and his wife Miranda filed a Donation Land Claim on 640 acres that included the river landing and the creek . Durham build a sawmill on the upper part of the creek and shipped lumber to San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii.  He founded a town on the bluff above the river and named it after Oswego, New York.  The same features that attracted Durham to this spot made it an ideal location for an iron furnace.  The lake provided waterpower and the landing provided access to shipping.  The landing remained the town's transportation hub until the end of the steamboat era.  For the next 60 years, the beach was an unofficial park where people launched boats, fished, swam, and picnicked.  Every spring between 75 and 250 Gypsies arrived to camp beside the river for two to three weeks.
In 1945, the City purchased the site for a municipal park, and in 1952 named it after George Rogers.
George Rogers Park