Charles Post purchased 10 acres of land on "Cabbage Hill" in 1910. He and his son then built a family home. In 1912, he set up a portable studio close to the Chanticleer Point Inn in the Gorge. Fortuituously, for the historian, Mr Post's photos and sketchings provide an unequalled pictorial record of the Gorge before, during and after the construction of the Columbia River Highway, which commenced in the fall of 1913 and was completed in the fall of 1915. Charles W. "Wes" Post was born in Portland on Jan. 2, 1915. He had a sister nearly five years older, and his mother gave birth to another child in 1918. Edith died during the delivery and so did the baby. Father Frank decided to let his young children, Lillian and Wes now live with their grandparents on the acreage that they had purchased for $500.00 in the Corbett area. They named their homestead "Mayview" after the daughter that had died shortly after they made the move to the Gorge from Illinois. Wes Post's grandfather was a renowned artist that had completed artwork for the Chicago World's Fair in 1896. Together Wes and his grandfather traveled extensively up and down the Gorge, sketching and taking photos of the Gorge. Wes' grandfather died unexpectedly at age 64 and the children were left under the sole care of their aging grandmother, Rosa Post. Wes graduated from Corbett High in 1932 and his grandmother died shortly thereafter. His sister Lillian had already graduated and married by this time. This information comes from "Living East of the Sandy, Volumes 1 and 2" by Clarence Mershon.
Charles Post purchased 10 acres of land on "Cabbage Hill" in 1910. He and his son then built a family home. In 1912, he set up a portable studio close to the Chanticleer Point Inn in the Gorge. Fortuituously, for the historian, Mr Post's photos and sketchings provide an unequalled pictorial record of the Gorge before, during and after the construction of the Columbia River Highway, which commenced in the fall of 1913 and was completed in the fall of 1915. Charles W. "Wes" Post was born in Portland on Jan. 2, 1915. He had a sister nearly five years older, and his mother gave birth to another child in 1918. Edith died during the delivery and so did the baby. Father Frank decided to let his young children, Lillian and Wes now live with their grandparents on the acreage that they had purchased for $500.00 in the Corbett area. They named their homestead "Mayview" after the daughter that had died shortly after they made the move to the Gorge from Illinois. Wes Post's grandfather was a renowned artist that had completed artwork for the Chicago World's Fair in 1896. Together Wes and his grandfather traveled extensively up and down the Gorge, sketching and taking photos of the Gorge. Wes' grandfather died unexpectedly at age 64 and the children were left under the sole care of their aging grandmother, Rosa Post. Wes graduated from Corbett High in 1932 and his grandmother died shortly thereafter. His sister Lillian had already graduated and married by this time. This information comes from "Living East of the Sandy, Volumes 1 and 2" by Clarence Mershon.