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 this topic list: 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. Marker is on Robidoux Road (also known as Robadeau 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.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Robidoux Trading Post (approx. ¼ mile away); Robedeau Trading Post (approx. ¼ 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.
More about this memorial. The Oregon Trail Memorial is a bronze tablet and a round bronze Oregon Trail Memorial disc set in a stone.
Additional commentary.
1. Nameless Graves & source of boulder
Memorial to
this page online
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 May 5, 2024. It was originally submitted on November 7, 2014, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. This page has been viewed 802 times since then and 79 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.
