This historical marker commemorating pioneer woman Marie Dorion is located 2 miles north of North Powder, Oregon on Highway 237 at mile point 29.04. Near here Marie Dorion gave birth to the "firstborn, part white child on the Oregon Trail".* Due to the mother's malnutrition the baby boy was tiny and week and died eight days later. For further information about this courageous woman and her life on the 1811 Wilson Price Hunt Astoria expedition read *MADAM DORION by Jerome Peltier.