Editing Astoria Column (section)

==History==
The tower was built in 1926 with financing by the [[Great Northern Railway (U.S.)|Great Northern Railway]] and [[Vincent Astor]], the great-grandson of [[John Jacob Astor]], in commemoration of the city's role in the family's business history. Patterned after the [[Trajan Column]] in [[Rome]] (and [[Place Vendôme]] Column in [[Paris]]), the Astoria Column was dedicated on July 22, 1926.<ref name=bigcle>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l7VWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5536%2C199138 |work=Eugene Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=Astoria to hold big celebration |date=July 9, 1926 |page=2}}</ref><ref name=Oregon/><ref name=acolcch>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cbFXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uvMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6859%2C293169 |work=Spokesman-Review |location=(Spokane, Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Astoria Column, Coxcomb Hill |date=July 13, 1926 |page=7}}</ref><ref name=tcatas>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=orVWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LukDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6372%2C1096842 |newspaper=Eugene Guard |location=(Oregon) |title=The Column at Astoria |date=July 24, 1926 |page=4 }}</ref> Maintenance work was done in 1936.<ref>"[[wikisource:en:Oregon Historical Quarterly/Volume 37/Number 3#269|News and Comment]]", ''Oregon Historical Quarterly'' vol. 37 no. 3.</ref> In 1974, the column was listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=ornrhp>{{cite web
  | title = Oregon National Register List
  | publisher = State of Oregon
  | url = http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf
  | accessdate =  2008-08-19| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080910052608/http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/NATREG/docs/oregon_nr_list.pdf| archivedate= 10 September 2008 | url-status= live}}
</ref> The murals that make up the column were refurbished in 1995 and a granite plaza was added in 2004.<ref name=friends/>

The column was one of a series of monuments erected by Great Northern between 1925 and 1926.<ref>{{cite journal |title= The Columbia River Historical Expedition: The Achievement and Its Promise |first= F. G. |last= Young |journal= Oregon Historical Quarterly |volume= 27 |number= 3 |date= September 1926 |pages= 292–294 |publisher= [[Oregon Historical Society]] |jstor= 20610354}}</ref>