HOOD RIVER

city, seat of Hood River county, northern Oregon, U.S., on the Columbia River, there bridged to White Salmon, Wash., 60 mi (97 km) northeast of Portland. It lies at the mouth of the Hood River, which was probably named after the British admiral Lord Hood. Settled in 1854, its development began after the railroad arrived in the 1880s. Vast acreages of land were planted in orchards in the 1890s; the first shipment of apples to the eastern U.S. in 1900 stimulated the Pacific Northwest's fruit industry. The cultivation and processing of fruit (apples, pears, cherries, and strawberries) continues to be the city's basic economic activity. The Hood River County Historical Museum is in the city, and Mount Hood National Forest and Bonneville Dam are nearby. Inc. 1895. Pop. (1990) 4,632.