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'''Location:''' Just north of where the Pacific Highway crosses Grave Creek in Sunny Valley, 14 miles north of Grants Pass in Josephine County, Oregon. | '''Location:''' Just north of where the Pacific Highway crosses Grave Creek in Sunny Valley, 14 miles north of Grants Pass in Josephine County, Oregon. | ||
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Revision as of 19:32, 5 July 2008
Fort Leland (1855-185?) - Established as a stockaded tavern by McDonough Harkness and Jesse H. Twogood on Grave Creek in Josephine County. The Oregon Volunteers used this fort during the Rogue River Indian War of 1855-56. Named after 16 year old Martha Leland Crowley an early emigrant who died and was buried on Grave Creek in 1846.
The stockade was built around a log wayside and the hotel at the town of Leland in Sunny Valley. It became the gathering point of a large force of regular army and volunteers and became known as Fort Leland.
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Location: Just north of where the Pacific Highway crosses Grave Creek in Sunny Valley, 14 miles north of Grants Pass in Josephine County, Oregon. Maps & Images Lat: 42.638793 Long: -123.377801 |
Sources:
- 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 666
- Hart, Herbert M., Tour Guide to Old Western Forts, Pruett Publishing Co., Boulder CO, 1980, ISBN 0-87108-568-2, page 135
- Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads
- McArthur, Lewis A. & McArthur, Lewis L., Oregon Geographic Names, Oregon Historical Society Press; 7 edition (December 2003), 1073 pages, ISBN 0875952771, ISBN 978-0875952772, page 371
- 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
Links:
Publications:
- Fort Leland - Oregon State Library
- [ http://www.southernoregon.com/sunnyvalley/index.html Sunny Valley]
- Applegate Trail Interpretive Center
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