Getaway: Tranquility and Oregon history at Champoeg

Monument Plaza, shown here at the Champoeg State Heritage Area near St. Paul, Ore., Aug. 244, 2012, is the site of the May 2, 1843, vote that created a provisional government--the first government established in the Pacific Northwest. You can�t come away from Champoeg without getting a history lesson or history being unearthed.(AP Photo/Graham Kislingbury, The Gazette Times)