A Clark County man born in Philadelphia, Henry J. Biddle (1862-1928), stood in the hard place between the rock and the corps. Beacon Rock is the core of an ancient, eroded volcano. The Indigenous ...

When the Army Corps of Engineers sought to reduce Beacon Rock to rubble, Henry Biddle purchased it for $1 in 1915. Before World War I, he spent another $10,000 building a steep trail to the 848 foot s ...