Gering in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)
Oregon Trail Memorial
Photographed by David J Gaines, June 12, 2014
1. Oregon Trail Memorial Marker plaque
Erected 1942 by Katahdin Chapter, D. A. R.
Topics and series. This historical marker and memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Roads & Vehicles. In addition, it is included in the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Oregon Trail series lists.
Location. 41° 48.345′ N, 103° 49.801′ W. Marker is in Gering, Nebraska, in Scotts Bluff County. It is on Roubadeau Pass Road, on the right when traveling west. The marker is located inside a fenced area containing 5 graves of unknown Oregon Trail travelers. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Gering NE 69341, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker and memorial is in the Nebraska Panhandle. It is also in the American Midwest, in the Corn Belt, and on the prairies. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Louisiana Purchase.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Robidoux Trading Post (approx. Ό mile away); Robedeau Trading Post (approx. Ό mile away); Robidoux Pass (approx. 1.4 miles away); a different marker also named Robidoux Trading Post (approx. 2.9 miles away); Fort Mitchell, 1864-1867 (approx. 6 miles away); Oregon Trail (approx. 6.3 miles away); Assistance on the Trail (approx. 6.3 miles away); History Lives on in Art (approx. 6.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gering.
Another marker is no longer nearby. The Bullwhackers (was approx. 6.3 miles away but has been permanently removed).
More about this marker. The Oregon Trail Memorial is a bronze tablet and a round bronze Oregon Trail Memorial disc set in a stone.
Additional commentary.
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1. Nameless Graves & source of boulder
Memorial to graves of four unknowns buried here on the pass.
The boulder at this site is on its 2nd life as a memorial. Originally it was located at Scotts Bluff National Monument for a 1930 marker to Hiram Scott, a mountain man and trapper who died of unknown circumstances near the landmark that bears his name. For reasons not exactly known, that boulder was removed in 1941, stripped of Hiram Scott's plaque, loaded on a wagon, and taken to this site for use here. Hiram Scott still has a city, a county, a mountain, and a national park named for him.
— Submitted May 5, 2024, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Photographed by David J Gaines, June 12, 2014
2. Oregon Trail Memorial Marker
Photographed by David J Gaines, June 12, 2014
3. Oregon Trail Memorial Marker with the graves
Credits. This page was last revised on February 14, 2026. It was originally submitted on November 7, 2014, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. This page has been viewed 1,247 times since then and 29 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on November 7, 2014, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
