Bend (Postcards of America)

In this collection of vintage-photograph postcards, the Deschutes County Historical Society explores the city's past. 

Bend sits on the Deschutes River at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range. Pioneer travelers called the spot Farewell Bend, the last place they saw a double bend in the river that offered a good camp and ford; when a post office opened in 1886, the name was shortened to Bend because Oregon already had a Farewell Bend on the Snake River. The railroad's arrival in 1911 and big sawmills from 1916 turned the town into a timber center.

This Postcards of America set from Arcadia Publishing, compiled by the Deschutes County Historical Society, tells that story in 15 historic black-and-white postcards that can be kept as a collection or mailed.