Noted as being “on the banks of the Willamette River… a short distance from the car barn of the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company” in a July 27, 1902 article. It seems to have been set up and operated by the local Milwaukie band, rather than any streetcar company and named because it was strung up with electric lights, rather than being a reference the the electric road nearby.

In 1905, a group of gamblers purchased the land, described as being just outside Milwaukie and in Clackamas County for a “Monte Carlo” casino that was decried by all decent people of the town. June 10, 1905 – “Today, at Electric Park, which lies just this side of Milwaukie, poolselling on the big National races will be resumed, after months of prohibition. Twelve acres of land lying along the Willamette and adjacent to the Oregon City car line was around it and one alights from the electric cars at the gate.”