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| Historic home in Baker City |
Platted in 1865, Baker
City grew slowly in the beginning .
A post office was established in 1866, but Baker
City was not incorporated until 1874.
The city and county were named in honor of U.S. Senator Edward D. Baker, the
only sitting senator to be killed in a military engagement. He died in 1861
while leading a charge of 1,700 Union Army soldiers up a ridge at Ball's Bluff,
Virginia, during the n Civil War.
The Oregon Short Line Railroad came to Baker
City in 1884, prompting growth; by 1900
it was the largest city between Salt Lake City
and Portland and a trading center
for a broad region.
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