Editing Gilliam County, Oregon (section)

==History==
[[File:Gwendolen Grain Elevator (Gilliam County, Oregon scenic images) (gilDA0177).jpg|thumbnail|left|Old [[grain elevator]] in [[Gwendolen, Oregon|Gwendolen]], in Gilliam County.]]
The [[Oregon Legislative Assembly]] created Gilliam County on February 25, 1885, from the eastern third of [[Wasco County, Oregon|Wasco County]] after residents complained that they were too far from their county seat in [[The Dalles, Oregon|The Dalles]]. The first Gilliam county seat was at Alkali, now [[Arlington, Oregon|Arlington]]. The question of a permanent county seat was placed on general election ballots in 1886, 1888, and again in 1890, when voters chose to move the county seat to [[Condon, Oregon|Condon]], known to early settlers as "Summit Springs." Once the question of the location of the county seat was settled, voters in Gilliam County proved reluctant to provide a courthouse in Condon. The county government operated out of a two-room house until 1903, when the county court appropriated money to construct a courthouse. This courthouse burned down in 1954 and was replaced the following year with the current courthouse.

The [[Shepherds Flat Wind Farm]], an 845 [[megawatt]] (MW) [[wind farm]], began construction near [[Arlington, Oregon|Arlington]] in 2009, shortly after approval by state regulators. The wind farm was being built by [[Caithness Energy]] using [[General Electric]] (GE) 2.5 MW [[wind turbine]]s, and it will supply electricity to [[Southern California Edison]]. In April 2011, [[Google]] announced they had invested $100 million in the project. The wind farm was estimated to have an economic impact of $16 million annually for Oregon.