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Oregon City is a city in and the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, on the Willamette River near the southern edge of the Portland metropolitan area.

Established in 1829 by the Hudson's Bay Company's Dr. John McLoughlin near Willamette Falls, it became in 1844 the first United States city west of the Rocky Mountains to be incorporated.

The 2020 census counted 37,572 residents in Oregon City.

Oregon City was the capital of the Oregon Territory from 1848 until 1851, when the capital moved to Salem.

In the 1840s and 1850s it was the last stop on the Oregon Trail for settlers wanting to file land claims, and its nickname is the End of the Oregon Trail.

The Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City in 1846, was the first American newspaper published west of the Rocky Mountains.

Oregon City was the site of the Beaver Coins Mint, which produced the short-lived independent Oregon Territory currency in 1849.

The city is divided into lower and upper areas linked by the Oregon City Municipal Elevator, built in 1915 and replaced by a new electric elevator in 1952.

The first long-distance electrical service in the United States originated in Oregon City in 1889, transmitting power 14 miles to Portland.

For much of its history the city's economy was dominated by forestry and paper mills on the Willamette River; the last nearby paper mill closed in 2017 but reopened in 2019 under new ownership.