Photo: Genesis of a City Marker

Photographer: Douglass Halvorsen
Taken: April 20, 2018
Caption: Genesis of a City Marker
Additional Description: I commenced laying off a Town on this portion of the Claim running from the river back to my South line and in the month of April, Pearl Smith in consideration of two lots donated him did put up a small building near the ferry landing, which is now owned and occupied as a Store by a Mr. Huddleston. I did not consider laying off the whole of the eastern part of the claim as I wished for the reason that could not get sufficient help...

Eugene Skinner
Letter to the Surveyor General of Oregon. (1851)
Submitted: April 24, 2018, by Douglass Halvorsen of Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Database Locator Identification Number: p424631
File Size: 2.747 Megabytes

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