Rocky Pointe Marina - History

Rocky Point Landing, as this locality was known in the 1870's, was the eastern terminus of a road that meandered through the hills between Hillsboro and Sauvie Island.

A ferry made regular trips between Sauvie Island and Rocky Point Landing. At that time, Rocky Point Landing consisted of a store, a post office, a school and a sawmill. This settlement disappeared in the early 1900's.

By the mid-1880's the road we know today as "Old Lower Rocky Point Road" was deeded to Multnomah County because the owners apparently could not afford to continue the high cost of maintaining the log paved road.

In the late 1920's a rock quarry was developed by Porter-Yett Co. The Porter-Yett Co. quarried nearly all the rock for the St. Johns Bridge construction site from the Rocky Point Landing quarry. Falling upon hard times the quarry played out an shut down in the 1930's. There was also a livestock dock in what is now the Middle Marina. The area was used for removal of cattle during Fall and Spring flooding on Sauvie Island by Rocky Point Livestock Co.

The late 1940's saw the beginning of Rocky Pointe Marina as it currently exists. If you look under the ramp in the Upper Marina you will see narrow concrete stairs. These stairs led to a rickety log walk that connected what is now the marina office. Piling were added in the 1950's to 1980s by Al Priutt and Sig Stubbs to complete the upper section of Rocky Point Moorage.

In the 1970s, the Middle Marina was developed by a maverick company known as Neptune Marine Construction Co.

The Tonnesons acquired the Upper and Middle Marinas in 1991. They also acquired the Kendal Lumber Co. property on the north side of the Middle Marina to form what is now Rocky Pointe Marina LLC - 3,300 feet of river front, midpoint on the Multnomah Channel, which provides houseboat, boathouse, open and covered moorage for approximately 250 tenants.