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Fort Smith (185?-185?) - This post was located at the stockaded house of William Henry Smith on Cow Creek and was used by the Oregon Volunteers during the Rogue River Indian War 1855-56.

Location: About four miles up Cow Creek from the present town of Glendale, close to the Pacific Highway in Douglas County, Oregon. Maps & Images Lat: 42.75944 Long: -123.36111 Street map from Google Maps or Yahoo! Maps Topographic map from TopoZone Aerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USA Satellite image from Google Maps or Microsoft Virtual Earth Wiki Mapping from WikiMapia Elevation: 1500'

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Source:

• Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads
• Victor, Frances Fuller, The Early Indian Wars of Oregon: compiled from the Oregon Archives and other Original Sources with Muster Rolls, Farnk C. Baker, State Printer, Salem, Oregon, 1894, page 368
• Roberts, Robert B., Encyclopedia of Historic Forts: The Military, Pioneer, and Trading Posts of the United States, Macmillan, New York, 1988, 10th printing, ISBN 0-02-926880-X, page 668

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