On August 8th, 1850, the schooner Samuel Roberts grounded on this bar during her maiden voyage to Scottsburg as part of the Klamath exploring expedition.
She was the first recorded American Vessel to navigate the Umpqua River.
While waiting . . . — — Map (db m113339) HM
A Big Piece of Reedsport History
Here, restored by citizens of Reedsport, is one of the largest steam donkeys to work the Oregon woods, the Smith and Watson 12 X 13 compound geared universal yarder. It was placed in service in 1915 . . . — — Map (db m113331) HM
Jedediah Smith's explorations in the American West began when he was 21 and lasted until his death at age 32. He crisscrossed the region in search of beaver pelts and new travel routes. His travel journals became a foundation for the first . . . — — Map (db m176970) HM
Jedediah Smith, making the first recorded overland trip from California,
followed the Oregon coast northward
and on July 13, 1828 camped with seventeen trappers on the north bank of
Smith River channel five-eights
of a
mile northeast of this . . . — — Map (db m237385) HM
Smith, Jackson & Sublette Beaver Trappers
-- In Memory of --
Thomas Daws · John Gaither · John Hanna · Abraham Laplant · Joseph Lapoint · Emmanuel Lazarus · Toussaint Marechal · Martin McCoy · Joseph Palmer · Peter Ranne · . . . — — Map (db m237193) HM
Originally the first lighthouse in the Oregon Territory. Was built in 1857 near the mouth of the river.
It was undermined and destroyed by flood in Feb. 1864.
Rebuilt here in 1891 and completed in 1894.
It shines a guiding light to all . . . — — Map (db m113915) HM
This former U.S. Coast Guard facility built in 1939, was restored by the Douglas County Park Department and dedicated as a public recreation facility on June 19, 1980.
Douglas County Board of Commissioners
Bill Vian, Chairman
. . . — — Map (db m113507) HM
Oxen Replaced Mules And Donkeys –
Steam Donkeys Replaced Oxen
By the early 1900’s steam yarders or steam donkeys, as they came to be known, industrialized logging.
These large steel and cast iron steam machines . . . — — Map (db m113474) HM
