For some time, settlers dubbed the sandy isle Shaw’s Island after a property proprietor there, Col. W. Shaw. As soon as the forty ninth parallel boundary between Canada and the western United States was mounted by the Oregon Treaty in 1846, the Oregon Territory was U.S. property and naming the place shifted again to the People. They, too, named it after a landowner on the island — Homosexual Hayden — and it has remained so thus far, to the enjoyment of mapmakers.
After studying of the Donation Land Declare Act, Hayden struck a declare on the island. He would finally purchase giant swaths of Vancouver, together with properties owned by Esther Brief. He and his spouse, Mary Jane Hayden, lived on the island for 5 years, finally constructing a big home there. In 1886, the pair separated and break up their island actual property, managing their divided fortune individually.
Attending to Hayden Island meant a water journey till 1917, when the Interstate Bridge opened. Till then, of us canoed or took the ferry that landed on the island. When the Interstate Bridge opened, streetcar tracks ran down the center, permitting passenger journey from Vancouver to Portland. A cease at Hayden Island opened it to leisure use.
The Columbia Seashore amusement park on Tomahawk Island ran from 1908 to 1926. In a profitable effort to promote extra swimsuits, Jantzen Knitting Mills opened Hayden Island Jantzen Seashore amusement park in 1928. The park featured swimming swimming pools, one Olympic-sized.
In 1930, Lotus Isle amusement park opened on Tomahawk Island, competing with the Jantzen Park earlier than closing after two years. Right this moment, the 2 islands are joined. In 1960, building crews used the rubble from the Interstate Bridge addition to attach the 2 islands.