Editing Hood River, Oregon (section)

== History ==
[[File:Oregon - Hood River Valley - NARA - 68147394 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Looking down on the town of Hood River showing the Columbia Highway winding up the east bank of Hood River, 1923]]
Hood River (originally called Dog River) post office was established (named by Mary Coe, who founded the city with her husband [[Nathaniel Coe]]) at the site of the present city on September 30, 1868,<ref name="OGN">{{cite book |last= McArthur |first= Lewis A. |author-link= Lewis A. McArthur |author2=Lewis L. McArthur |author2-link=Lewis L. McArthur |title= [[Oregon Geographic Names]] |orig-year= 1928 |edition= 7th |year= 2003 |publisher= [[Oregon Historical Society Press]] |location= [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]] |isbn= 0-87595-277-1 |pages= 477}}</ref>
and the city itself was incorporated in 1895.<ref name=Oregon_1859>{{cite book|last=Marschner|first=Janice|title=Oregon 1859: A Snapshot in Time|publisher=Timber Press|date=July 15, 2007|pages=233–236|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1-UW6M_gw48C&q=hood-river+oregon+mary-coe&pg=PA234|isbn=978-0881928730|access-date=February 12, 2020}}</ref>  Originally, the city was part of [[Wasco County, Oregon|Wasco County]], but it became the seat of Hood River County when the county was first established in 1908.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Corning|editor-first=Howard M.|title=Dictionary of Oregon History |year=1956 |publisher=[[Binford & Mort|Binfords & Mort Publishing]] |location=[[Portland, Oregon]] |pages=118}}</ref>

===Hood River Incident===
The Hood River incident involved the removal of 16 [[Nisei]] servicemen's names from the county "roll of honor" in Hood River, Oregon, by the local American Legion Post 22. The incident, on November 29, 1944, was part of a string of [[Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States|anti-Japanese actions]] taken in an attempt to prevent removed Japanese Americans from returning to the area after their release from [[Internment of Japanese Americans|internment]] by the United States federal government. National outrage against the community heightened five weeks later when a local Japanese American serviceman died after completing a heroic mission in the Philippines. Under great pressure, the local American Legion post restored Nisei names to the wall of the county courthouse on April 29, 1945.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hood River incident|url=http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Hood_River_incident/|access-date=2019-07-06}}</ref>